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Poste Militaire
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S003-SS004-0006 · Item · 1994
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Document of the anti-military performances of Mestre, sale of firearms at a market in Marseille. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Potentia
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2126 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The video represents the “subject” that does “nothing”, with his keeping sitting and staying. But it also indicates the audience who watches the video. Potentia is aimed at realizing two subjects, the author and the audience, and asking the relationship between them. The accumulation of time and place by arbitrary and coincidence may appear as the “possibility” before long.

ES ES-OVNI CTX-S015-SS003-0004 · Item · 1947
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

  “Because one must produce, one must by all possible means of activity replace nature wherever it can be replaced, one must find a major field of action for human inertia, the worker must have something to keep him busy, new fields of activity must be created, in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake manufactured products, of all the vile synthetic substitutes in which beautiful real nature has no part, and must give way finally and shamefully before all the victorious substitute products (...)". Antonin Artaud.  

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Poussière de Femmes
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0038 · Item · 2007
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Ouagadougou. Darkness fell on the city several hours ago. Ramata, Mariam and Eugénie are bent over the ground, untiringly sweeping the dust which inevitably swirls back. The language they use to speak of their professional and family lives mirrors their struggle, to get rid of the city's dust and the poverty of their homes with equal energy. A documentary on the role and place of African women today. The majority are still illiterate and yet they are the cornerstones of economic activity in numerous countries of the continent.

Prague, People & Profit
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S008-SS004-0007 · Item · 2000
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The IMF and World Bank summit in Prague in September 2000 provoked a large-scale mobilization of citizens around the world. Seattle, Washington and Millau have already demonstrated the power of the antiglobalization movement and the independent media. "Prague, People and Profit" examines the movement and the changes in Check society since the fall of the Eastern block.

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Precipitate
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3280 · Item · 2010
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The artist is suspended in the air in the midst of a grove of trees, spouting water in the form of a human fountain. The video is meant to trigger various interpretations: lawn-sprinkler, black pinata having sprung many leaks, ninja, woodland creature, or sacrificial performance, all of which are informed by the context in which the action takes place.