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Perdida Mente
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3532 · Item · 2009
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The story of a man who sees his life changing radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. A portrait of the advance of his neurological condition that begins to affect not only his own life but the lives of all those who surround him. During the progression of the illness he is taken care of by his daughter Teresa, who tries to fill in for the memory loss and the progressive alienation and senility, accompanying him through the inconclusive medical exams and experimental medication in the hope of finding a way to help her father.

Perestroika
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2937 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Natalya's laundrette is really simple: four washing machines in a row, a few dryers, some plants and a TV set to sep her company. Natalia is Russian, she was born in the USSR, but now her country belongs to Kazakhstan. She left her homeland nearly ten years ago to settle down in Buenos Aires with her whole family. She was running away from post socialism; of its unemployment and its violence. Before the Perestroika, Natalya was an accountant. When she arrived to Argentina, she couldn't find a job and she decided to set up her own business. However, she's still not quite enjoying this new way of life, she misses the socialist times. According to her it was the “best system in the world”, everybody had work and holidays. In fact, she dreams of a better life...that is why she took part in a great draw on the internet.

Perestroika
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2949 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Natalya's laundrette is really simple: four washing machines in a row, a few dryers, some plants and a TV set to sep her company. Natalia is Russian, she was born in the USSR, but now her country belongs to Kazakhstan. She left her homeland nearly ten years ago to settle down in Buenos Aires with her whole family. She was running away from post socialism; of its unemployment and its violence. Before the Perestroika, Natalya was an accountant. When she arrived to Argentina, she couldn't find a job and she decided to set up her own business. However, she's still not quite enjoying this new way of life, she misses the socialist times. According to her it was the “best system in the world”, everybody had work and holidays. In fact, she dreams of a better life...that is why she took part in a great draw on the internet.

Perro Corazón
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0072 · Item · 1998
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

1998, Tangier. Conversations in the bar La Poste with Tangerian writer Mohammed Chukri and New York poet Ira Cohen, stories of death, separation and loss under the mantle of friendship.

Persons of Interest
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS004-0006 · Item · 2003
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

After the Sept.11 terrorist attacks, more than 5,000 people, mainly non-U.S. nationals of South Asian or Middle Eastern origin, were taken into custody by the U.S. Justice Department and held indefinitely on grounds of national security. Muslim immigrants were subject to arbitrary arrest, secret detention, solitary confinement, and deportation. Many were denied access to legal representation and communication with their families.

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Petite anatomie de l'image
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3443 · Item · 2009
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Towards the end of the 18th century, artists from Florence reproduced in wax bodies that had been dissected by surgeons. In a symetrical way, “Petite anatomie” features images through cuts, grafts, dissections. The result is a mixture of strange creatures.

ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0022 · Item · 2009
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Canada's tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. Extracting the crude oil called bitumen from underneath unspoiled wilderness requires a massive industrialized effort with far-reaching impacts on the land, air, water, and climate. It is an extraordinary spectacle, the scope of which can only be understood from high above. In a hypnotic flight of image and sound, one machine's perspective upon the choreography of others, suggests a dehumanized world where petroleum's power is supreme.

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