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              6 Archival description results for Germany

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              Calcutta Calling
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0084 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Vikeeh Uppal is a young Indian who works in a Calcutta Call Centre selling cell phones and ?re extinguishers to America and Great Britain. Vikeeh lives with his traditional Punjabi family and has never been out of Calcutta. The Brits he deals with on the phone, Hollywood movies and Manchester United soccer matches give him an idea of the globalized world.

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              Paradise Later
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS004-0009 · Item · 2010
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Paradise Later is a documentary adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel "Heart of Darkness." Inside the head of a trader, we travel on a river that meanders through apocalyptic scenery. Available online until December 27th 2020.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0029 · Item · 2002
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The fictions-performances inside and outside of Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores often end with the Reverend being arrested. He calls it stepping into somebody's imagined box. The police call it illegal trespassing. The Reverend claims that social change always begins with civil disobedience and includes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements.

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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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              Three Lives - Hanoi
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0085 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Khue, a Buddhist monk, the clown Phong and the young prostitute Thuy reflect on their personal experiences during three different decades of Vietnamese history. French colonialism, the Vietnam war and the current effects of globalization create an image of a Hanoi teetering between the influences of modern, Western ideas and traditional Asian values. The protagonists' fragmented memories draw a picture of Vietnamese day to day life but also deal with the social changes of the past 70 years.

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