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Anonyme
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3354 · Item · 2010
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A public square, a shared place, time, passers-by. The director stops there, for a year, to look at the small details amid the hubbub. He takes interest in the wind, the sounds of the night, and those who, like him, stop. These are encounters in which no words are exchanged, often presented in a single shot. Anonymous voiceovers tell stories of ephemeral encounters. A slowness, a stillness, which, by force, becomes action, distiling a singularly political regard on public space today.
Anthem
Anthem
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S003-SS002-0019 · Item · 1993
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Anthem is a post-industrial lamentation, structured on the single piercing scream of a young girl as she stands in the vast chamber of Union Station in Los Angeles. Viola relates this structure to the form and function of religious chants, particularly Gregorian chants (using a harmonic scale in a resonant hall) and Tantric Buddhist chants (ritual exorcism and conversation with demons). The original scream is extended in time and shifted in frequency to produce a scale of harmonic notes that comprises the soundtrack, to which Viola juxtaposes images of materialism -- industry and the worship of the body, giant oil pumps and the beating human heart, cars streaming along a freeway and blood flowing through veins, modern surgical technology and tree branches in an ancient forest. The anguished scream cuts through the corporeality of the body and contemporary culture as a living organism. For Viola, the piece is a ritual evocation of "our deepest primal fears, darkness, and the separation of body and spirit."

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Antibiografies
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S016-SS004-0002 · Item · 2014
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

José, Victoria and Miquel are three of the people who have lived on the streets, or are very close to doing so. Antibiografies is a documentary about the lives of Barcelona’s homeless people, a hidden world that is less visible but no less real or alive than any other. The protagonists talk about how they survive, their relationships, and the occupation of public space. A vision of tod ay’s society from a marginal, frontier perspective.
Antonio: (Artistas de la Supervivencia)
Antonio: (Artistas de la Supervivencia)
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS002-0004 · Item · 2003
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Antonio's story is one among the many stories of a person trying to survive the gentrification of El Raval, a traditionally working class neighbourhood in the centre of Barcelona. Antonio makes ends meet by recycling his finds and swapping things, while also giving things away to people who are in need, the homeless, poor people and migrants... all in all, he is a small focus of resistance to the ruthless capitalism that is slowly taking control of our lives.

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Antonio Negri: a revolt that never ends
Antonio Negri: a revolt that never ends
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS003-0006 · Item · 2004
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

July 1st, 1997. An elderly man arrives in Italy on a flight from Paris. The special forces of the Carabinieri immediately arrest him. Antonio Negri had voluntarily returned to his home country after 15 years in exile. The newspaper Liberation hails it as, “The return of the Devil”. Over the years, few intellectuals have experienced as much admiration and hatred, or as much praise and rejection, as Antonio Negri. His book “Empire”, a critical analysis of the new global economy, was hailed as a bold new manifesto for the 21st century and overnight it turned Negri into a leading spokesperson for the international anti-globalization movement.

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Antonio Negri The Cell
Antonio Negri The Cell
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0072 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

For Antonio Negri, renowned political philosopher and author of “Empire” with Michael Hardt, a 17 year long chapter of repressive Italian politics of detention, exile, and imprisonment recently ended. The question for Negri is how one can preserve the freedom of spirit within a penal structure that focuses more on the interior than exterior life of the prisoner. For Antonio Negri, the cell of resistance from which he wrote became an enclosure of peace. The Cell is comprised of three video interviews with Antonio Negri: 1997 while he was in exile in Paris, 1998 in the Roman prison of Rebibbia, and 2003 after his release in Rome.