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How to Be a Recluse
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S007-SS001-0019 · Item · 1998
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Advice on how to gain independence and control in the face of the difficulties implicit in human relationships. We live in a busy world and isolation seems to be the only way to escape the buzz of lists, inspirational catchphrases and reminders to upgrade — now! The peace of ignoring the phone may be bliss, but what about when we get what we ask for, and are forgotten altogether? The author mulls over the bittersweet reality of escaping. A video about wanting to be alone and being lonely — a meditation on the cult of individuality and independence in our anxious urban world. Created in 1998, but now feels even more relevant during these current pandemic times.

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How to Be a Woman
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0065 · Item · 1948
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

As the daughters of the baby boom reached adolescence, the American school system struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development‹lessons that were not always being taught at home. To the teacher uncomfortable with such topics, classroom films were a godsend. They depicted the reproductive system in anatomical detail (Growing Girls) or through puzzling symbolism (The Wonders of Reproduction). Beyond sex education, classroom films addressed a wide array of social issues, from the importance of cooking skills (Júdgalo tú misma), to self-defense (Attack) and how to appear more pleasing to others (Improve Your Personality). Often corny, sometimes frightening, these cinematic life lessons - curated and introduced by Skip Elsheimer, founder of the A/V Geeks educational film archive - provide a fascinating window to the hopes and fears of parents and educators in mid-century America.

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ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0114 · Item · 1997
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Huey P. Newton was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, an organization FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once called “the greatest internal threat to the security of the United States”. He spent four years in prison for the voluntary manslaughter of an Oakland police officer before his conviction was overturned in 1971. This powerful documentary features an exclusive interview with Newton during his incarceration, wherein Newton discusses his goals as a revolutionary, including self-determination for African-Americans, full employment, decent housing for the poor and disenfranchised, an end to police brutality and an end to the Vietnam War.

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Huicholes y Plaguicidas
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0007 · Item · 1994
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The Huichol people consider themselves responsible for keeping alive the flames of the candles of life, thus conserving the balance of the forces of nature. However, they find themselves living with extremely toxic pesticides.

Humano Caracol- Steve Paxton
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0038 · Item · 2009
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Thought through movement. Human Caracol sees the journey as an itinerary that is open to experience, a story made up of the unexpected, of mobile and fixed intensities. A nomadic portrait of choreographer and dancer Steve Paxton. Steve Paxton was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theatre and Grand Union, and a pioneer of Contact Improvisation, and part of the Merce Cunningham dance company in the early sixties. In this documentary based on the tactile gaze, Steve Paxton talks to choreographers María Muñoz and Pep Ramis as they prepare organic compost.

Hunter
ES ES-OVNI RSC-4244 · Item · 2015
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

It is nightfall. A hunter lurks in the darkness, wandering further towards the impenetrable. Do the meanings lie in the stream, in the mountains, the stars, or in the death of things?

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ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0011 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

This film is the final part of a three-documentary series by Carlos Casas that explores life in some of the most inhospitable regions of the planet. In this case, a group of whale hunters in northern Siberia continue to keep a thousand-year-old tradition alive today. Their archaic methods, their skills and their own struggle to survive are captured in all their harsh and spectacular glory.

Hurlements en faveur de Sade
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0009 · Item · 1952
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Debord's first film, “Hurlements en faveur de Sade” (Howls in favour of Sade), testifies in its own way on the passion for idleness that moves its author. Howls in favour of disappearance and perdition, howls against all images, against the spectacle and its hypnotizing effects, against false communication...

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ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0046 · Item · 2003
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Through many voices, this project articulates the process of living in an area that until recently formed part of the periphery of the city of Barcelona. Torre Baró and Vallbona are two neighbourhoods that are expected to become a node of connection and expansion of metropolitan urban growth. This video tells the short history of these neighbourhoods by focusing on various themes: a first part explains the occupation of the area by settlers and self-builders; a second part characterised by the struggle, the process of socio-political demands and the consolidation of the associative movement; and a final part that outlines its possible future as an enclave of connection and interrelation with the urban context.