2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
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Paris Couleurs, a compilation of archival film material, deals with the image of the migrant in cinema and television throughout the century. From ”Zoos Humains” to the mythical ”Black-Blanc-Beur” of the year 1998, the film follows a history of representation, clichés and stereotypes. With this film Pascal Blanchard and Eric Deroo present a new audiovisual version of their research program “from the native to the immigrant” and their point of view of the relation between colonial history and the history of immigration.
UntitledNatalya's laundrette is really simple: four washing machines in a row, a few dryers, some plants and a TV set to sep her company. Natalia is Russian, she was born in the USSR, but now her country belongs to Kazakhstan. She left her homeland nearly ten years ago to settle down in Buenos Aires with her whole family. She was running away from post socialism; of its unemployment and its violence. Before the Perestroika, Natalya was an accountant. When she arrived to Argentina, she couldn't find a job and she decided to set up her own business. However, she's still not quite enjoying this new way of life, she misses the socialist times. According to her it was the “best system in the world”, everybody had work and holidays. In fact, she dreams of a better life...that is why she took part in a great draw on the internet.
Natalya's laundrette is really simple: four washing machines in a row, a few dryers, some plants and a TV set to sep her company. Natalia is Russian, she was born in the USSR, but now her country belongs to Kazakhstan. She left her homeland nearly ten years ago to settle down in Buenos Aires with her whole family. She was running away from post socialism; of its unemployment and its violence. Before the Perestroika, Natalya was an accountant. When she arrived to Argentina, she couldn't find a job and she decided to set up her own business. However, she's still not quite enjoying this new way of life, she misses the socialist times. According to her it was the “best system in the world”, everybody had work and holidays. In fact, she dreams of a better life...that is why she took part in a great draw on the internet.
In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organized an audiovisual formation center to encourage a “dialogue in images” between the two factions. A film was edited from that experience, but the French police partially destroyed it. The images that were saved represent an unprecedented historical document: They tell of the Algerian War and the history of the ALN (National Liberation Army), as well as showing life after the war and, particularly, the reconstruction of the cities and the countryside after the war of Independence. It is the first film from independent Algeria Dirección y fotografía | Réalisation et image | Directors and cinematographers René Vautier Ahmed Rachedi Nacer Guenifi Héléna Sanchez Sidi Boumédienne Mohamed Guennez Allal Yahiaoui Mohamed Bouamari André Dumaître Taïbi Mustapha Bellil
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
Hakim Bey, Anarchy in USA, Black Block, Autonoms, MC5, Sea Shepherd
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For after all, how do we know that 2 and 2 make four? or that the force of gravity works? or that the past is unchangeable? The doubts of Winston Smith (main character of George Orwell's novel 1984) and found footage from "Operation Iraqi Freedom" are the starting point for a meditation on the state of the human being.
Document of the anti-military performances of Mestre, sale of firearms at a market in Marseille. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
