1991 is a key date in the construction of the global empire. At the start of the first Gulf war, George Bush "the father", paraphrasing a soldier, declared: "I don't think we're in this war over the price of a barrel of oil, we're here to define the future of the world for the next 100 years".
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A new episode of the author's personal video diary. Every day life seen through psychological problems. Available online until December 20th, 2020. Courtesy of Harvard Film Archive.
UntitledINTERVIEW AGENCY An exercise that explores the interview format– as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity.
UntitledImages filmed in the New York subway, with a choral soundtrack from the basílica of Montserrat. This piece underlines the eternal in the relationship between mothers and children in a world of constant change.
A document about the ritual of a religious service; faith and ecstasy as means of survival in the Puerto Rican community of the South Bronx, in New York.
UntitledEvery Saturday, members of a group called Falun Gong gather in front of the Chinese consulate on 42nd street in New York City to protest and meditate. On this Saturday, there was a blizzard. They stayed the whole two hours anyway, unmoved by external forces. In the peaceful faces battered by wind and snow, a combination of superhuman resilience and human folly emerges, a mix of absurdity and heroism, eliciting an uncomfortable reaction: we admire the strength of conviction while being tempted to judge the whole thing as fanatical. But here the struggle against nature has taken over the political struggle. Available online until December 27th 2020.
UntitledOn a business trip, George visits his friends in New York. Relics, memories, his mother in the Bronx. Available online until December 27th 2020. George Kuchar's videos are copyright of the Kuchar Trust and distributed in partnership with the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Remembering running away from home, 8 years later.
UntitledStatement by Subcomandante Marcos in the Lacandona jungle, the role of neo-liberalism and the mass media. Such statements constitute a landmark document in that they were important to confirm the ability of coordination between media and independent platforms of resistance.
UntitledThe Sures, Brooklyn New York. A solitary Puerto Rican preacher: "out vile demon! demon from hell abandon this body! Bless the good mother, Father baptise with fire, fire, fire!". Soundtrack: Barbara Held.
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