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Master Hands
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2647 · Item · 1936
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities: MODERN TIMES and TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. (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.)
Mast Qalandar
Mast Qalandar
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS001-0003 · Item · 2005
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Above all, Mast Qalandar (Ecstasy) is a look at heterodoxy and a celebration of its existence. Qalandars are a Sufi brotherhood of roaming dervishes who once ranged through an arch that crossed Asia, from Turkey to Pakistan and India. They are characterized by extreme mystical devotion and their revolutionary and anti-dogmatic attitudes within Islam, such as use of hachis and the rejection of alcohol and free submission to Haqq, the truth, which they see as the absence of limits rather than something which narrows and defines horizons. “Mast Qalandar” immerses us in the ritual encounter of these dervishes around the grave of the brotherhood's founder in Pakistan. A vision of heir devotion to “the beloved” that leads them into trance and ecstasy, where death means simply to “draw aside a veil”. Available online until December 27th 2020.

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ES ES-OVNI RSC-2925 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Cuban Revolution has used since the beginning posters and billboards to transmit to people its political and social ideology: a way of visual comunication that has lasted to nowadays. This film was produced in 2006 and was conceived as a “work in progress”. With each billboard, a postcard of Cuban daily life is shown. We have registered their geographical coordinates so that in the future we can go back to shoot again and show, from the same locations, the evolution of Cuban History.