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RoundTrip
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0027 · Item · 2005
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A man who is not there. A woman who receives his letters. She reads them to us, but remains out of sight. The man who sends the letters describes his journey. In the end, he stops writing. Has the journey, then, ended'

Round and Round (Widgets)
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S008-SS002-0001 · Item · 1939
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit. The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.

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Room Without a View
ES ES-OVNI RSC-4305 · Item · 2020
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon. By combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate insights into the private lives of employers, agents and maids. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies.

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ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS005-0006 · Item · 2004
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Six years after being bombed by NATO forces, Belgrade city still keeps some of the buildings as they were left by the bombs. Inside one of them, the same group of women that once use to clean and maintain it now gather together, acting and working again as if time had never moved.

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roma a.d. 999
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0058 · Item · 2000
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

An account of the growing tension in a city during the year of its transformation for the Jubilee. A documentary about the hysteria of Rome as it prepares for the invasion. It is set out as a chronicle of the nine months preceding the start of the Holy Year, told through ten characters and their ways of dealing with everyday obstacles. Rome spent more on “beautifying” Rome in the lead up to the Jubilee than it had in the ten preceding years, and 55 million pilgrims and tourists were expected to visit the city in 2000.

ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS002-0005 · Item · 2000
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Rod Coronado is a Yaqui Native American who explains how the massacre of his people went hand in hand with the massacre of animals. The two are deeply interrelated, with the same aggressor: a system, a predatory culture. This realization led him to take an active part in ALF actions to protect animals from cruelty, slavery and extermination: “There was no time for those animals suffering in labs and fur farms and factory farms to wait to exhaust more legal means. I could see already that people for many, many years had chosen that path and although it is effective at times, it was not bringing about results quick enough for those animals now suffering. So I became involved in direct action with the Animal Liberation Front.

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