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Notable army officers, key members of the Military Intelligence, politicians, experts in strategy of the communication and researchers of new post-war illnesses, poignantly exchange their views about thorny issues, generally unknown to a wide audience, outlining the different angles of a new culture of conflict, progressively more invisible and enslaved to a science without limits with a unique belief: to imagine the unthinkable.
Warning is an ironic video brings over of the safety and the copyright in to industry of the cinema, raising the problematics of marketing and the illegal reproduction. This audio-visual one, has been realized with images extracted from a DVD, from movie, with all the notices of prohibition to the piracy in differents languages.
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Five of these UN member countries are today the biggest arms dealers in the world. Made with archive footage edited in fragments, WARdisease explore without chronology the equal posture of the people which are the toys of that economic reality. Men women children. Run cry fall die, be armed. And start again.
Project in Residency Falconetti Peña
/ Exhibition War, insubmission, art /
/ FILMOTECA DE CATALUNYA /
/ CRIPPLES OF WAR AND NORMALITY /
/ PATRIOTISM AND COLONIZATION /
/ YOU WILL DIE AS HEROES /
/ PAMPHLET AND REVOLUTION /
WAR, INSUBMISSION, ART
Project in Residency Falconetti Peña
In 1924, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I, Otto Dix published his work The War, composed of fifty engravings in which he denounced warmongering with a harshness that had not been seen until then. A century earlier, Goya, a painter who inspired Otto Dix, produced The Disasters of War. And now, one hundred years later, a cruel and senseless war is once again being fought in Europe.
Otto Dix is located between two times, Goya's and ours. The project for this exhibition/intervention is to take his engravings as a starting point for a journey through the art that has rebelled against war slogans.
Goya, Dix, Grosz, Arntz, Watkins and many other artists defied the prevailing aesthetic order by creating works of enormous relevance. To do so, they used modest formats, the engraving, the poster, the mimeographed magazine, the pamphlet, the false documentary, the only ones they could access in times of censorship and blockade. These are works that managed to last against all odds, as there were many who were interested in making them disappear.
Thanks to them, today we can follow the trail of those who in their day disobeyed the patriotic slogans, maintaining the flame of resistance to the war madness.
The project will cover various spaces and historical periods, combining different formats, pictorial, graphic and audiovisual.
The idea is to contrast them, face to face, with the messages of those who at the time bet on galvanizing the warrior ardor of the masses.
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another. The film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
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In 2003 the reality of war set in, amd the roar of the mainstream media seemed to deafen ours ears and stifle our voices. Hudson Mohawk Independent Media center respond by coming together to make these three documentaries. Independent Media in a time of war, Voices Against War, Women's fast for peace.
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