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Despotism
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0032 · Item · 1946
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where do your community, state and nation stand on these scales?

DESPACIO
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3220 · Item · 2009
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Like a relaxing tea, this documentary offers just breathing slowly. Look, empty the mind in the slow pace of what happens, until we learn to see that there is, in life around us and in our own hearts, a peace and quiet that we did not even suspect. Present a succession of peaceful moments. Almost nothing, and almost everything, in a place in the world where a camera lurks: plant life, animal life, human life

Desobediencia
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS006-0004 · Item · 2005
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

They form but a small minority. One out of a hundred. Ten in a thousand. They dared to defy the military authority and its rigid discipline. They consciously disobeyed direct orders. The price they paid for remaining true to their convictions is more than they ever bargained for.

Design for Dreaming
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S003-SS002-0024 · Item · 1956
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future". The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

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Deserter
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS005-0001 · Item · 2007
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

"Deserter" is the journey of Ryan and Jen Johnson - a deserting soldier and his young wife - as they flee across the country to seek refugee status over the Canadian border. As they move from safe house to safe house, we get to know Ryan and Jen - two, shy, small-town kids from the Central Valley who joined the military because there were no jobs, and find they must make a heroic stand in order to escape an illegal and immoral war.

Desert Rose
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S003-SS003-0017 · Item · 1995
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A view of Las Vegas in the 1950s. Casinos and nuclear tests uncover the dark side of the American dream. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.