During the third Rif war, from 1923 and 1927, the Spanish army used massive quantities of mustard gas against civilians, thus making Spain one of the first world nations to use chemical weapons on a civilian population. Eighty years later, a young man from the Rif living in Madrid embarks on a race against the clock to safeguard the memories of the last remaining witnesses of that war. The Spanish government has never acknowledged its crimes. And the victims, now elderly, threaten to die without ever having spoken out about those years of suffocation and death.
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Kuma War is more than just a game, it is an interactive chronicle of the war on terror with real news coverage and an original video news show for each mission. Kuma tells the stories of soldiers on the ground by putting players in their boots. Stop watching the news and get in the game! “This is not like playing Unreal, this is the re-creation of a scenario that soldiers overseas have and are experiencing. That's a big difference” - Hollywood Reporter.
Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)Five Palestinian, Israeli and international activists paint themselves blue and don pointy ears and tails that make them look like the characters in the film Avatar. Although their colonisers are from different origins, the Avatars, like the Palestinians, fight imperialism. 'The Avatars' presence in Bil'in today symbolizes united resistance to imperialism of all kinds.
UntitledICT, Loockhed Martin, Future Combat Systems, Full Spectrum Warrior, Kuma War. A devastating wave of terrorist attacks spreads across America, Europe and Southeast Asia, targeting specifically U.S. and U.K. interests, including embassies, regional corporate headquarters, and even western retail and restaurant chains. After months of intense hunting, U.S. intelligence tracks the source of the attacks to the tiny eastern nation of Zekistan. Zekistan was born seemingly overnight with the fall of the Soviet Union, resulting in a struggling third-world nation, torn by ethnic and sectarian strife, armed with a large surplus of Soviet-era military hardware and a critically weak government. Barely a year after its independence, the nation fell into brutal civil war between ethnic Zekis and settlers from surrounding nations. The Zekis were defeated by fundamentalist dictator Mohammad Jabbour Al Afad, who wasted no time in ordering the ethnic cleansing of the native Zekis. After the U.S-led operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, thousands of ex-Taliban and Iraqi loyalists crossed the borders of Zekistan seeking asylum by invitation of the nation’s dictator, Al Afad. It wasn’t long before the same terrorist training facilities and death-camps that the U.S. fought to remove in Afghanistan were operating again under full sponsorship by Al Afad’s government. After repeated warnings and failed diplomatic resolutions in the UN, NATO votes to invade Zekistan to depose Al Afad, eliminate the terrorist element, and stop the ethnic cleansing of the Zeki people. Pakistan grants the U.S. fly-through access to their airspace, and the operation begins. For several consecutive nights, carrier groups USS Carl Vinson and USS Ronald Reagan in the Arabian Sea launch thousands of sorties to take out air defense, armor, and enemy bases. With the dust barely settled, Infantry and Armor from seven NATO nations begin to land at captured air bases in southern Zekistan. The land invasion is underway… ...a media archaeology project by OVNI ARCHIVES: reading agents abu-ali & retroyou. 1999-2004.
A video essay of life in Baghdad before the invasion and occupation. Men dance, women draw and Sufis sing as they await the coming of another war. Notes, gifts, promises, paintings, trash, and other ephemera from the city which is now hardly a city.
UntitledSeptember 11, 2001 ushered in a new world order that extended to the age-old practice of torture. In this new paradigm, torture is seen as necessary – and therefore justifiable – in the war against terrorism. Furthermore, victims have no rights, they do not exist for legal purposes and can simply disappear in long secret flights to unknown destinations. This documentary traces the story of some survivors of this globalised torture who spent time in places like Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo. And for those who still think that the Abu Ghraib photos were a one-off situation, an isolated case, it takes us on a journey back in time, to Argentina and Guatemala, and even to the Middle Ages and the Holy Inquisition.
UntitledOn January 15, 2008, Israeli tanks destroyed the Peace Park, the only public park in the Gaza Strip. It had been a donation from the city of Barcelona to the residents of the Gaza Strip. The documentary gathers the testimonies of the neighbours hours after the attack. If they need to recover their public spaces, do we have to simply pay what Israel breaks?
Moqtada al Sadr and his militia, the Mehdi Army, have been America's most intractable opponents in Iraq. For five years, they have controlled large sections of the country - including half of Baghdad, defied attempts to marginalize them politically, fought pitched battles with the US Marines and only grown in size and influence. But in the Spring of 2008, the Iraqi and U.S. military launched surprising attacks against Sadr strongholds in Basra and Baghdad. After a few weeks of stiff resistance, cease-fires were negotiated and the Mehdi Army melted away from the street.
UntitledBiography of stone is an angry roar, a roar of indignation and opposition to the crimes and cruelty that occur all over the world, a cry against the harshness of stone that refuses all dialogue.
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary, computer graphics, dramatisations, and investigative journalism, "BORDERS" probes the unsettling paradoxes behind immigration, drugs, Star Wars, and other topics.