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Reviews the history of immigration to the United States up to the restrictive law passed in 1924. A dramatized scene in an European steamship office is used to show the economic, political and religious motives for immigration. Contains scenes of Ellis Island and New York City in the early 20th century. From www.archive.org

Immersion in the labyrinth of Daídalos

The exhibition Daídalos / Δαίδαλος is presented at the Port of Tarragona as part of the SCAN International Photography Festival of Tarragona. The exhibition, curated by Xavier de Luca and Houari Bouchenak, presents the works of Camilla de Maffei, Dani Pujalte, Denis Dailleux, Pauline Alioua, Myriam Boulos, Shareef Sarhan, Toni Serra *) Abu Ali and Matteo Guidi & Giuliana Racco.

This is a co-production of SCAN, Port de Tarragona and Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies. With the collaboration of the UNESCO Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Negra Mosca, and the OVNI Archives.

Saturday, November 23rd from 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Shelter 1. Port of Tarragona

Moll de la Costa 5-7. Tarragona

As a closing of the exhibition, a space will be opened to allow access to the different photographic proposals, providing the voices, experiences and visions of the collectives Negra Mosca and the OVNI Archives.

13.30 h Catering organized with Mescladís

13:00 h Dialogue visit with Negra Mosca and the curators Xavier de Luca and Houari Bouchenak.

16.30 h Session of projections of the OVNI Archives, in memory of Toni Serra *) Abu Ali.

Bagong Silang , Zena Merton, 2012. Philippines, 11min. VOSE.

A film about a community that lives in a cemetery in Manila. Rural poverty combined with a terribly overcrowded capital explain why many thousands of families have taken to squatting in the city's cemeteries. This film reveals their problems, jobs, sense of community and hopes for the future.

Napoli Centrale , Bouchra Khalili 2002. Morocco, Italy, France, 8 min, VOSE.

The night crossing of a Mediterranean city by car. Its passenger stay there almost invisible, absorbed by the urban view. A voice confirms a lonely night wandering in a city by the sea, an urban journey made to let the time pass away. Who crosses this city isn't only passing through it. He's a local, for a night, before an exile without return.

Le Bled (Buildings in a Field) , Jem Cohen, Lucy Sante, EE.UU, Morocco, 13min. VO.

"En route from the airport to the city center, we found ourselves amazed by the landscape outside of the car windows; a massive construction project under way in all directions. While not in itself unusual, we were by struck dumb by the epic scale and seemingly incomprehensible plan of the development and were drawn to return together to this puzzling zone".

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sabaudia e la "civilta' dei consumi , anonymous on the net, 1974, Italy, 5 mim. VOSE

“Fascism was just a bunch of criminals in power, but it managed to deeply transform Italy. Nowadays the opposite is true, and the power of today’s democratic regime is managing to achieve the acculturation and standardization that fascism was unable to complete. The power of the consumer society that destroys other particular realities and impoverishes the diversity of human beings.”

The City of Saba , DJ Kadagian, Four Seasons Productions, 2007, EE.UU, 9 min, VOSE.

"There is a glut of wealthy in the City of Saba. Everyone has more than enough. Even the bath stokers wear gold belts. Huge grape clusters hang down on every street and brush the faces of the citizens".

                                                                                                                                                             Excerpt  Le Bled ( Buildings in a Field)  

El Canto de la Abubilla , Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 2015, Morocco, 28 min, VOSE.

“Traveler who travels with no other baggage than imagination.”

Last Night Dikr , Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 2005, Morocco, 7 min, VO.

The search for water, the descent deep into the well of the heart. Based on a 17th Century Persian poem by Najmudin Kubra.

"It may indeed be questioned whether we have any memories at all from our childhood: memories relating to our childhood may be all that we possess. Our childhood memories show us our earliest years not as they were, but as they appeared at the later periods when the memories were aroused. In these periods of arousal, the childhood memories did not, as people are accustomed to say, emerge; they were formed at that time. And a number of motives, with no concern for historical accuracy, had a part in forming them, as well as in the selection of the memories themselves." Freud . This ten-part video strains childhood through a history of reproduction, culling pictures from the Lumiéres to the present day in order to find the future in our past. Here are children of pictures, as pictures, the ones who will walk on our graves, granted a legacy of framing and image making that have helped shape their lives, and their ability to grieve those no longer around to share them.a video in ten parts: In the Future (3 min), Jack (15 min), Last Thoughts (7 min), Portrait (4 min), Secret (2 min), In My Car (5 min), The Game (5.5 min), Scaling (5 min), Imitation of Life (21 min), Rain (3.5 min).

Imaginary Laughter was made specially for an exhibition entitled "Imaginary Beings" at Exit Art, New York. Both my film and the exhibition are in some sense loosely inspired by Borges's "Book of Imaginary Beings". However I did not want my bestiary to assume the form of an elegant labyrinthine catalogue but to reflect even more of the subjective element in the perception of monstrosities, of the Other. It became a kind of essay in the construction of hysteria by men. Not only in the way they project it onto women and other men, but in the form it arises within themselves.

Due to her Mongolian birthmark, the filmmaker Theresia Grösslinger embarks on a cinematic journey through Mongolia. However, the illusion of being closer to the country and its people because of her birthmark is destroyed right from the beginning. While taking part in a family's everyday life in the southern veldt, she soon has to admit to herself her disappointment at feeling completely lost in this vastness and that the family only regards her as a tourist.

/ THOUSANDS OF LITTLE EYES /

/ SONG OF THE EARLY DAYS /

Static images are presented to the human visual system in a way that creates the illusion of movement.

Santa Mònica  series 2024.

"The concept of 'illusory movement', also known as 'apparent movement', refers to the perception of movement in a static image or in a sequence of images. This phenomenon occurs when static images are presented to the human visual system in a way that creates the illusion of movement."

"Illusion of Movement" is the thematic continuation of the last module of the Observatory in "Video Tuesday 2023", titled "Intimacy vs Media". It was originally developed during the early days of the Unidentified Video Observatory in the nineties. It collected various considerations about contradictions, inertia, continuities, and tensions of personal experience in the contemporary media flow.