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Many of the indigenous communities in Chiapas have no access to potable water. Water and Autonomy looks at this serious problem and how the Zapatista communities are solving it. Through solidarity and training from internationals many communities are now building their own water systems. Members of the communities speak about ways the water project fits into their autonomous process, helps fight sickness, has provided a means of reflection for how to protect existing water sources and represents another means of resistance to globalization projects like the Plan Puebla Panama.

"The Reality seen through this camera is more Real." - Subcomandante Marcos. A look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.

Promotional tourism video. Idealized images that entice consumption. What is omitted screams out, like a wound.

Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances.

The video You Went Back Again and Again, 2009 addresses the space of mourning and does this by looking at the registers of memory. The camera traverses with me to spaces that repeatedly explode with images I want to erase. A video installation, the work is an assemblage of images, text, sounds. Set within the overall narrative of a car journey to my father's grave and back, the work seeks to document the two years after the event. Believing strongly in a certain image of grieving this work sets out for me and the viewer an alternative. Conversations traverse from the incredulous to deep feelings of guilt, images from journeys explore the space of being nowhere and the self writes itself in words that cannot be strung together. Bodies don't exist in these spaces whole, neither of those who have passed nor of those who live to tell, to mourn. It testifies to what is left, the images, the knowing, the ifs and the buts.

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