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              The Net
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0111 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The Net explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology - a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, and a circling through themes of utopianism, anarchism, terrorism, CIA, LSD, Tim Leary, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, The Net exposes a hidden matrix of revolutionary advances, coincidences, and conspiracies.

              Untitled
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0012 · Item · 2004
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The film focuses on the re-enactment of a demonstration of women against the prohibition of work introduced by the Taliban. The shots were taken during the shooting of the Afghan feature film OSAMA in November 2002 in the streets of Kabul. 1000 women had come to play in this scene, and their personal experiences were identical with the ones of the protagonists. Most of the women acted in the demonstration scene to earn money. By demanding work they hoped to improve their real situation.

              The Kurukshetra - Report
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-3231 · Item · 2009
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              copiado de sixpack films xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Kurukshetra – the field of the eighteen-day mythological battle, which is told in great detail in the 100,000 double verses of the Sanskrit Mahabharata epic. The Kurukshetra-Report – Games in an empty white room. Two men in a clinch: punching, beating, kicking, strangling, groaning, whimpering, shouting. In rapid alternation: familiar representations of violence from the cinema and other arts. The ballet of Far Eastern martial arts alongside pure Blood-Realism with make-up on. But no justifications or explanations here. No story, no motif, it is simply so. Provocation and material for the endless censorship debate that revolves around the assumption that films provoke and foster violence, render viewers victims. But how, when the viewer isn't really so innocent? How, when, in an act of regression he even enjoys engaging with the pictures of violence. That's nothing new, and not only in dreams. Constructed in its most beautiful form in a forgotten film genre, in slapstick, but also in cartoons: a ceaseless beating and stabbing, a torrent of baseness. Infantile sadism, polymorphous perverse sexuality. A worldwide audience once helped these films to tremendous success – and mobilized censure and criticism. But that is simply vulgar – which is, after all, true. Yet the picture of a simple, regressive viewer is incomplete. Infantile amusement enters into a paradoxical tryst with the appraisal and admiration of the depiction's artistry that makes entirely clear that no one is harmed in the outrageous attacks. Which, in the end, also applies to the feature film and its stars. For that reason, thanks also go to Alexander Pach and Marc Patrick Dressen, who slam and are slammed so skillfully for Ascan Breuer's demonstration of violence. (Werner Dütsch)

              The Great Berlin Food Fight
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-2915 · Item · 2008
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Each year the two Berlin precincts Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain fight each other on the Oberbaumbrücke, the bridge which connects them. They fight with spoiled vegetables and fruit, used diapers and everything that's smelly and rotten. For our bimonthly podcast 'First We Take Berlin' we go right where it hurts and try to bring peace to the people.

              The Golden Fleece
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S005-SS002-0007 · Item · 1992
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Acclaimed German filmmaker Alexander Kluge, one of the most relentlessly innovative and intellectual figures in contemporary German cinema/ has in recent years produced a remarkable series of works for television. Produced for the German television program "Ten to Eleven" this series comprises an extraordinarily rich body of work that compliments and dialogues with Kluge's films. Traversing realms of desire and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, these highly experimental works weave together eclectic scenarios that reference advertising, cinema, opera, and electronic communications, and culminate in an ironic critical discourse on fantasy, representation, and history.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS006-0002 · Item · 2010
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              This documentary portrays Dubai as the latest neo-capitalist nightmare: a virtual reality reminiscent of Second Life, brought into being by the sweat of an immigrant workforce. What are the real working conditions in Dubai?. The epilogue, shot in the greenhouses of Almeria and Melilla in Spain, shows the similarities of a global business model. In this sense, "Dubai is in all of us".

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              THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNE
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-3309 · Item · 2009
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              In the commune of Viennese action-artist Otto Mühl, children should remain "unspoilt from the nuclear family" and be brought up to become completely new human beings. Common sexuality, common property and the abolition of parents-children relationships were the basic elements of a social experiment which turned into a totalitarian system. Through the eyes of former children of the commune and combined with extraordinary exclusiv footage from its archives the film takes us into a world of utopia and abuse.