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Eternal Beauty
Eternal Beauty
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0081 · Item · 2003
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

This is an essay on the aesthetics of National Socialist cinema. The history of the Third Reich is investigated in light of its own image making. What hopes, desires and fears are reflected in these images? The film unfolds chronologically, with original material dating from 1918 to 1945.

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Et la guerre est à peine commencée...
Et la guerre est à peine commencée...
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS005-0003 · Item · 2010
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

“We were born into catastrophe and we have negotiated a strange and placid relationship with it, based on habit. A kind of intimacy, almost. As far as back as we can remember, there has been no reality but world civil war. We have been educated as survivors, as machines for survival. He have been trained in the idea that life consists of moving forward, advancing until we collapse in the midst of other bodies that are marching identically, that stumble and collapse, in turn, into indifference. At most, the novelty of this era is that none of this can be hidden any longer, that, in a sense, everybody knows how things stand. This is at the root of the recent, obvious, toughening of the system: their machinations have been laid bare, and it is useless to try and keep them secret...”

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Estats de Trànsit
ES ES-OVNI RSC-4335 · Item · 2024
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A video essay by Alessandro Quaranta and Toni Cots, in collaboration with CRA’P – Creation Practices and Artistic Research. States of Passage, shows an ‘alterity’ of subjects and cultures, which by constituting a radical alternative to the dominant and homogeneous thought, both in terms of socio-cultural spheres and small communities, they challenge the spatial-temporal and anthropocentric convictions of control and knowledge of any visible and invisible phenomena. It is precisely in terms of the invisibility or visibility of the apparent, that which has prompted us to elaborate this essay with images, and the word as evocation. This video-essay is a testimony of this attempt: the subjects that appear are marginalised beings or entities, self-exiles, ascetics, primitives, etc., in and from the margins of ‘civilisation’. The material used consists partly of open source videos available on the net and re-edited, some available on the OVNI archive, and others created specifically for this project. Authors cited in the video essay States of Passage: Scott Barley, Philippe Descola, Federico Lanchares, Ciro Guerra, Xavi Hurtado, Gian Antonio Gilli, Toni Cots, Alessandro Quaranta, Pavel Lungin, Ben Rivers, Bruno Latour, Carlos Casas, Toni Serra *) Abu-Ali. This video essay is a non-profit research project for educational purposes.  
Espoir, Sierra de Teruel
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0070 · Item · 1938
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

In 1938, the novelist, intellectual and politician André Malraux directed his only film, ‘Espoir/Sierra de Teruel' , a valuable testimony to the experiences of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. Shot in Barcelona and Montserrat, the film was banned during Franco's dictatorship and was not released in Spain until 1978. The film looks at the vicissitudes of a large group of Republican fighters, and their determination to stop the advance of the Fascist troops by blowing up a bridge on the Zaragoza road, near the town of Linás. In close collaboration with local farmers, the squad of soldiers try to keep their spirits up and manage to get through the non-stop bombings and the harsh, continuous attacks of their powerful enemy.

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