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El Nganga y los Árboles
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S009-SS005-0002 · Item · 2002
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces

El Mégano
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S007-SS005-0010 · Item · 1954
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

This is one of the first films in pre-revolutionary Cuba, whose protagonists are not professional actors, which portrays the poverty of the coal workers and attempts to change their working conditions. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

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El Limbo
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2160 · Item · 2004
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Piramide d'opinió: L'home-El món-Déu Els Llimbs és l' experiència interior del que no pot ser jutjat perque no te ni experiència ni coneixament del bè ni del mal. En el fons son aquestes dos situacions les que reclamen que l'Home resitui el sentit de la seva existència, no amb l' inmediat de la seva conducta, sino amb el sentit últim de la mateixa. Ee podria parlar de Just, sense justicia?. Amb aquesta carrera fins...el cap a on? sempre ens disposa amb aquesta situació de desitjar i témer, de correr cap a i de fugir de...

El Huerto de Zapata
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0049 · Item · 2002
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

El Huerto de Zapata depicts the development of a new Zapatista settlement as the community searches for a system of organization and economic activities, customs, lifestyles and collective work that are balanced among men, women and children. They seek to improve their lives and struggle to survive globalisation, from the cultural, social and political context of Mexico.

ES ES-OVNI RSC-2037 · Item · 2007
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A portrait of the german actor Christof Wackernagel, formely member of the left sided terroristic Red Army Faction(RAF) in the 70´s. The story takes place in Mali, Africa, where Christof nowadays lives and where he tried to build up a bakery for german brown bread. The film deals with cultural problems and the impressive life story of Christof Wackernagel.