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Fire Under the Snow
Fire Under the Snow
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0075 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese communist army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the “crimes” of demonstrating peacefully and refusing to falsely denounce his teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and forced to perform hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed by the Chinese occupiers. Despite this, he remained unbroken, keeping the flame of his spirit ablaze.

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First Contact
First Contact
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS003-0004 · Item · 1983
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

In the 1930s, Australian miners lead by Michael Leahy and his brothers made their first trek into the New Guinea highlands. This was the first contact between white people and highlanders. Compelling footage of the initial meetings is combined with interviews of the surviving brothers and highlanders who recall the impressions and shock of those long ago events.

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Fish Tales: Sustainable Development
Fish Tales: Sustainable Development
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S006-SS007-0011 · Item · 1997
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

This film was one of seven commissioned of leading documentary filmmakers in India as part of a series, India’s Quest, to commemorate 50 years of India’s independence. An exploration of the nature and scope of the crisis of modern India. The mechanization of the fishing industry has depleted fish stocks worldwide leading to a major crisis. Along the Kerala coast, traditional fishermen face similar problems as their catch dwindles every season. In the village of Adimalathura, a group of fishermen come together in an effort to reverse this trend. Their solution? Constructing artificial reefs out of ferro-concrete and then planting them on the seabed.

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Fit to Be Tied
Fit to Be Tied
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S008-SS003-0008 · Item · 1995
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

"Fit To Be Tied" is an individual portrait of the political community, "brokers" and businessmen in the city of Chicago, through a brief interview in which the only question is "Why wear a tie?". The answers, of a rich variety, places us before an individual analyzing their own representation, though less explicitly the portrait is about the link each of these individuals establishes with the camera and with the one who holds it, often recognized as a foreigner.

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Flicker On Off, Parts 1-3
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3119 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Flicker On Off is a trilogy applying the idiom of experimental film and artist's video to big-budget movies in order to speak about world affairs in what could be described as an alternate essay format. Repeat Photography and the Albedo Effect, Part 1 of Flicker On Off (2008, 8:12, sound, b&w, 16mm to digital, available on miniDV, DVD, BetaSp) Intermixes unlikely suspects to reflect upon the impact of global warming on glaciers. Boxing scenes from Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull are re-shot with a Bolex 16mm camera and then hand processed and juxtaposed against National Public Radio (NPR) reportage and British artist Katie Paterson's audio project. Sunroof (Benazir Bhutto Assassination), Part 2 of Flicker On Off (2008, 6:10, sound, b&w/color, 16mm and web to digital, available on miniDV, DVD, BetaSp) Reconsiders the December 27, 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and leader at the time of the Pakistan People's Party. Gun shootouts in Miller's Crossing by the Coen brothers are re-shot with a Bolex 16mm camera and then hand processed and clashed against nonfiction images of rioting and a multi-lingual audio collage. All the House (Haditha Massacre), Part 3 of Flicker On Off (2008, 5:50, sound, b&w/color, 16mm and web to digital, available on miniDV, DVD, BetaSp) Collects and reconfigures far-ranging source materials to ponder the November 19, 2005 killing by US Marines of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Featured is ten-year-old Iman Walid, who witnessed the slaughter of her family. The Atlantic City massacre scene from Godfather III by Francis Ford Coppola is re-shot with a Bolex 16mm camera and then hand processed.
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S015-SS004-0003 · Item · 1967
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

At the height of the Vietnam war, with the media drumming up the war and patriotism, Cassius Clay took the name Mohammed Ali and refused to go to war or to participate in propaganda activities. He paid the price of being stripped of his world heavyweight title and faced a prison sentence. “No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters over dark people the world over."

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Flora Petrinsularis
ES ES-OVNI RSC-579 · Item · 1993
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The proposal made to the visitor is to associate to a real book another one, which is virtual, to be flipped through on the screen. The virtual book opens interactive sequences of images and sounds with variable rhythm animations. For each quotation, there is a video illustration, as an engraving, focused on a character from the short love scenes, in the very moments of outburst, selected from »The Confessions« by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ZKM artintact 1 [1994] CD-ROM

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Fog
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2964 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A fascinating story of bereavement and mysticism, FOG tells of the quest to unravel the fate of a missing soldier. First Sergeant Mu'in Halabi disappeared at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War during an abortive IDF attempt to conquer Mount Hermon from the Syrians in October 1973. Two weeks later the IDF announced that Mu'in's body had been found. A casket was buried in Mu'in's hometown, the Druze village of Daliat el-Carmel. A month after the battle for the Hermon, a child was born in the Galilean village of Mrar. At the age of four, this child declared that he was the reincarnation of Mu'in, and, indeed, was able to relate almost everything about him. But in 1985 inhabitants of Daliat el-Carmel testified to having heard Mu'in speak on the Syrian State Radio. Veteran newsman, Rafik Halabi set out on a journey into time, memory, the Druze religion, and harsh Israeli realities in an attempt to uncover what lies behind this multi-layered story or, put more directly, whether Mu'in Halabi is alive