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“I will show two videos: “Trobriand Cricket”, and “Les Maîtres Fous” to talk about what I will call “mimetic excess”. By this I mean a joy or "jouisance" in mimesis itself (Nietzsche talks about this in his description of Dionysus). An “excess” produced at the moment of de-Colonisation in the 1950s-1960s, with the encounter between the Indigenous and the European worlds; the first with its mimetic body, and the European world with its mimetic-machine (the camera). A question for us: Now, in 2006, what do we do with this "excess?"
Filmed with a family camera, the video shows a child handling a book. First contact with books and culture, reading is physical, the child looks, touches and chews the book, the body is not yet indoctrinated and censored, it is free.
A compilation of Columbian film heritage material relating to indigenous communities. Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano.Colección Acevedo (1932 -1948) , Marco Tulio Lizarazo (Guerrillero Guadalupe Salcedo, 1953).
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This video captures the rhythm of its subjects, the daily life of a family in rural Mexico. A black and white film of extraordinary beauty, created with the most rudimentary tools. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
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The emergence of Hezbollah as a party dates back to 1982 when a group of islamic believers considered the eminence of establishing a certain formula to face the weakness prevailing in the struggle against Israel and to achieve the goals of Islam. Since the very beginning, Hezbollah was directly linked to the Islamic struggle in Iran that had a direct impact on the party's lifepath. The party was constitutud form organizations and party affluents, both islamic and national, and from independent currents among youth. The aprty is religiously tied to the jurisprudent lider al Imam Khomeini first then to al-Imam al-Khamenei.
Film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940. (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.)
Leaded/Unleaded documents the May 2004 labour demonstrations in the poorest neighbourhoods of Beirut that were violently repressed by the army. There has been little focus on the perpetual economic crisis in Lebanon, where upwards of 40% of the country's population lives below the poverty line.
