A Saakhelu ritual carried out at the Panteón (Jambaló, Cauca). The documentary shows each stage of the ritual step by step, and explains its meaning and importance to the entire community of the Nasa people, in Columbia.
UntitledSemidocumentary about the life of a group of punks in the Mexico City neighborhood of Ciudad Neza, during the 1980s. A surprising context in which to place the expressions, references and dreams of the punk movement. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
UntitledSoy Defensor de la Selva relates how the Sarayaku community struggles against CGC when this oil company enters Sarayaku territory in order to carry out seismic prospecting, without the consent of the community. The video shows how the Sarayaku community confronts the oil company crews in order to stop them. The conflict intensifies when the military intervenes, reaching body-to-body confrontations. The women are the main protagonists of the video. Men, women, and children go out to guard the traditional limits of the community. The film shows the life in our Camps for Peace and Life, and contains the testimonies of our elders, as well as traditional music as background. This is the story of a small community struggling to save its space of life.
UntitledAfter a year of guerrilla warfare in Bolivia with a small group of 52 comrades, Che was now dead. His dream of uniting Latin America through armed revolution had come to an end. The person who, more than any other, has gone down in history as guilty of Che's death is his former lieutenant, Ciro Bustos. When captured, he drew Che's portrait for the Bolivian army. Since then he has been living in silence. He now appears for the first time in a documentary film. His version of the events raises questions about how history is written.
UntitledThe author gets herpes after a single sexual encounter with a cow-boy. This video reflects on this experience and the consequences it also reviews with irony the figure of the cow boy in the American culture. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Sadie, The Saddest Sadist narrates the travails of a female munitions worker in Britain. The story is ultimately about exchange; Sadie trades her labor for patriotic satisfaction and money in the munitions factory, and then gets into a different type of exchange with Jack, a sailor she meets on the street. In keeping with the themes of exchange and war, the visual and verbal languages of Sadie are systems of shared, public meaning: the cartoon and doggerel poetry.
A documentary put together from an anonymous collection of 16mm home movies showing safaris in Central Africa filmed between 1957 and 1963. The footage, which was later edited and had a sound track added, shows a group of friends, lovers of small game hunting, meticulously filmed by a cameraman: a safari in French Equatorial Africa (Chad), footage of “kills” in Cameroon, Angola, Mozambique and other African countries, that have the impact of a colonial-touristic expedition.
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