A 20 minute short movie-presentation of the insurrection of December 2008 in Greece through the words and actions of people that took part in it. The video was created in Thessaloniki in January 2009 and its first presentation took place before an open discussion-review of the insurrection in the squatted public library of Ano Poli.
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7 Descripción archivística resultados para Greece
“The electric light sometimes hides more information within public space than it shows. The idea of the video art work STRiKE can relate to the social discussion about urban aesthetics and the defensive psychological mechanisms of human against its mechanical creations and their application on everyday life. The camera shoots a young man at night, doing an accurate rebellious gesture, a playful activist praxis, against a public electrical lamp with a found stone in order to reveal the night panorama of the picturesque port at the Greek island of Symi. It is a romantic but violent strike gesture, which seems almost instinctive at first. On the other hand, this accuracy and very short duration reflects the power of the work's metaphorical content to the viewer, making him/her an eyewitness of one's self-attack against the contemporary human civilization on the purpose to protect his/her own nostalgia. A one-man only playful attack against the conscious ecological destruction humans have imposed on landscape under the excuse of the modernization. The act STRiKE seems almost hilarious to the viewer as it brings up the contradiction of the physical attempt on sports and gaming in general with activism. I was inspired by the “strike” action in the bowling game to entitle it. ATTENTION: the title is written as it sounds all letters capitals except the “i”. Please, keep the same writing way for the title always when referring to the particular video art work!” TAXIARCHOPOULOS YORGOS
Varanasi, the city of Shiva, is also a city of death, known for its devotion and for its crematoria, which is where the Aghori Sadhus live. They cover their bodies with the ashes of the dead and ask for food using a human skull as a vessel.
Sin títuloLepers banished to a Greek island. A society that organises itself to resist rejection and abandonment. In 1904, the Greek government decided to confine lepers, considered dangerous to society, in the fortress of Spinalonga, a peninsula north of Crete. There, while they await death, they seek a living. Raimondakis, the son of a lawyer, is their spokesman. He does not accept being locked up in handcuffs when he has committed no crime. He does not want to be pitied, he just needs love. Pollet is commissioned by the pharmaceutical company Sandoz to talk about the last days of leprosy in Europe, which he transforms into a profound reflection on the differences between the disease and the supposed normality. The camera travels through the abandoned spaces of the Greek island of Spinalonga, officially called Kalydon, a leper colony from 1904 to 1956, the year in which an effective treatment put an end to compulsory confinement and the sick began to be transferred to hospitals in Athens.
Sin títuloIn this documentary, the late 19th century birth of Zionism - and its repercussions for Palestinians- is detailed with original source documents, Zionist leaders' quotations, rare archival footage, testimonies of witnesses and interviews with historians. All help to illustrate that the expulsion of the indigenous Arab population from Palestine was far from an accidental result of the 1948 war. This award-winning film shines a spotlight on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist movement.
Sin títuloDebtocracy - Χρεοκρατία - Deudocracia is a documentary that explores the reasons behind the Greek debt crisis and suggests solutions that the Government and the mainstream media prefer to keep hidden.
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