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Rebond pour la Commune: Taller
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S015-SS006-0002 · Item
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A discussion with Patrick Watkins and the group Rebond pour la Commune, which was created as a result of the participants’ experience in the production of Peter Watkins’ La Commune. The gathering between Rebond and local groups from Barcelona will revolve around the film and its reading and experiences in the current context.

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Rebond pour la Commune - Taller
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S015-SS005-0001 · Item · 2012
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A discussion with Patrick Watkins and the group Rebond pour la Commune, which was created as a result of the participants’ experience in the production of Peter Watkins’ La Commune. The gathering between Rebond and local groups from Barcelona will revolve around the film and its reading and experiences in the current context.
Re-Awakening Saddam's Tribal Strategy
Re-Awakening Saddam's Tribal Strategy
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0014 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

“The Surge” has dominated the debate about the war in Iraq, but no one is talking about a development that has had an even more important impact on the war - 'The Awakening Movement'. After four years of bloody insurgency in Iraq's Sunni heartland, the course of the war changed abruptly when America formed an alliance with a confederation of Sunni militias known as 'The Awakening movement'. Under the new program, the US gives money, weapons, and military support to tribal sheiks who provide security in return. 100,000 Sunni militiamen were put on the US payroll, and the program has put a small tribal elite in charge of an army of soldiers and a massive patronage network. Since the 'Awakening' began, attacks on American troops have fallen to their lowest levels of the war - but it is an uneasy alliance of convenience.

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Reason is a name given to collective thought 2002-2003
Reason is a name given to collective thought 2002-2003
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0058 · Item · 2003
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Each of these was recorded at a particular time in a particular place but it could have been in any number of places, at other times in history. It could have been the fans of the opposing team, supporters of a different cause, members of a different tribe. Crowds form when specifics dissolve. The specifics of time and place as well as specific emotions, needs, thoughts, desires, hopes, beliefs - specific individuals. We wanted to evoke both the dangers and the power and euphoria of these states of collective existence.
Real Saharawi
Real Saharawi
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0086 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Like many refugee children in the camps of Algeria, Zrug left home when he was only eight years old in search of education in Cuba. After 16 years, he returned home only to find that his mother died six years earlier, but he still decided to stay on and actively participate in the fight for the liberation of his people.

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Rave, who hears words with my ears
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2563 · Item
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

It's been said that all things seen and heard have already been recorded by man. The magic in creating fresh new work is in finding a different way of assembling the treasures you have collected. In RANT & RAVE and the soon to be released RIFF, we have reached back in time and gathered wisdom sayings from great poets and film from great cinematographers and created a complexbrew that nourishes the soul as it stimulates the mind. Designed to challenge, provoke and inspire, these films hit on a broad spectrum of social, political and spiritual issues while effortlessly cutting across traditional lines of gender, race, religion and ethnicity. Great poetry is naturally rhythmic and infused with image and symbol – qualities that enable them, like great religious texts, to trigger a deep emotional and spiritual response. In these powerful films, we endeavored to create an audio/visual balance that allows the spirit of each poem to shine through the screen while providing the viewer space to experience each poem as it speaks to him or her. Each of our 15 poems has been crafted into a short film with its own unique image set and soundtrack. The short films have then been carefully sequenced to hold the viewers full attention while always trying to keep him slightly off balance – a place where possibilities arise. Mixing original footage with obscure gems from far and wide, you will find yourself on the front seat of the Cyclone in 1940's Coney Island, scrambling for cover in present day Iraq or on the Space Shuttle looking back at earth. Maybe you'd prefer hanging out in a smoky Tango bar in 1922 Argentina, participating in a Union strike during the Great Depression, wandering the desert in Israel looking for meaning or dancing with a tribe of American Indians in 1895. Have we created some magic? Cover your ears and let the beautiful streaming imagery take you on a journey not bound by words or rhythm. Close your eyes and let the poetry and music pull images out of your own imagination. Sit back and fully experience some of the distilled wisdom of the human race

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