Alberto Arce films documentaries: In 2004, Nablus la ciudad fantasma, in 2005 Internacionales en Palestina and El ghetto de Qalquilia, in 2007 Mesalla, pacifistas en Irak and in 2009 Erased: Wiped Off the Map. “... afterwards, of course, there were endless discussions about the shooting of the elephant. The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing. Besides, legally I had done the right thing, for a mad elephant has to be killed, like a mad dog, if its owner fails to control it...” George Orwell started out writing stories about killing an elephant in Asia. He ended up alternating between Mauser and pen in a fertile partnership. Walking Barcelona. Palestinians with a trunk, elephantiasic in their deformity. All of them terrorists whose lives have no value except as statistics choreographed in terms of the number and rate of their extermination. Without soiling the style pages. Decades later, Asia returns to Barcelona. Honest citizens of the West, waiting for better times to give up the pen, and the camera, wanting to take up the Mauser used by somebody who knew what it meant to shoot an elephant. Meanwhile, between increasingly sterile hunting expeditions, ammunition. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images. 21 days counting bodies. Tell the world, bodies that have died, once again, for no other reason than the reassertion of power and colonial domination.
Promotional Films from Florida and Disneyland are the following films: 1965's Florida Welcomes Disneyland: a unique film that was used to get people in Florida excited about Disneyland coming to Florida; 1972's Country Bears and Whinnie the Pooh Bear Country; 1974's Disneyland Promo film featuring America Sings.
Recycling a video loop on the explanation how television works, creates the framework for a structural demonstration on the deconstruction of the video signal. This is done by copying the tape over and over again with two VHS-recorders until the picture and sound disintegrate into noise. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
Untitled1 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1993.
Gema Martín Muñoz, professora de Sociología del Mon Àrab a l'Universitat Autónoma de Madrid. Entre altres treballs, es autora del llibre "El Estado Árabe. Crisis de legitimidad y contestación islamista". (Bellaterra, 2000).
Gema Martín Muñoz, Professor of Sociology of the Arab and Islamic World at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Among other projects, she is the author of the books ?El Estado Árabe. Crisis de legitimidad y contestación islamista? [The Arab State: Crisis of Legitimacy and Islamist Opposition](Bellaterra, 2000) and ?Iraq, un fracaso de Occidente?, (Tusquets, 2003).
UntitledÀ travers les moments forts du IVe Forum Mondial de l'eau, qui se tenait l'an dernier à Mexico, le documentaire Discours d'eau présente la lutte menée par les Mazahuas, paysans autochtones victimes depuis plus de 25 ans d'une gestion hydraulique centraliste et catastrophique. Habitants d'une région montagneuse et boisée abondante de précipitations, cette communauté est néanmoins assoiffée. Non loin de là se trouvent pourtant les énormes réservoirs d'eau sous la surveillance du Sistema Cutzamala. Celui-ci, développé à la fin des années 1970, par le biais du détournement de nombreuses rivières périphériques, achemine 19 000 litres d'eau chaque seconde vers le réseau d'aqueduc de Mexico. Comble de l'absurde, à travers le réseau désuet de la mégapole, les fuites d'eau sont estimées à 35%. Discours d'eau met en scène la lutte des Mazahuas, aux côtés de militants du monde entier, et les discours sur la privatisation de l'eau qu'ont tenus des représentants de gouvernements et d'entreprises derrière les portes closes du IVe Forum Mondial de l'eau. Or, ces discours sont à peine couverts par les médias, malgré leur énorme impact sur d'innombrables populations.
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Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem, the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries is a series of video recordings which relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East. In these works, which play upon chance and co-incidence, the hotel room is employed as a 'found' film set, where the architecture, furnishing and decoration become the means by which the filmmaker's small adventures are linked to major world events. Works in the series include Frozen War (Ireland, 2001), Museum Piece (Germany, 2004), Throwing Stones (Switzerland, 2004), B & B (England, 2005), Pyramids/Skunk (The Netherlands 2006/7), Dirty Pictures (Palestine 2007) and Six Years Later (Ireland 2007).