Bravo is the surname of the old lady portrayed in this video, the mother-grandmother of the author. Bravo also means brave, as though in reference to the encounter with the nude figure of the mother, revealed in desecrated images. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Untitled“I live on the campus of the Gaston Berger University at Saint Louis, Senegal. I have met there Africans from different parts of the continent. Of all these friends, one of them, a Senegalese, has stuck in my mind. He was the first to speak to me of my difference, the fact that I come from Central Africa. He let me become acquainted with his society, its taboos. Today I do not know where he is. I just know that one day he left on a pirogue headed for Europe. From his absence came the desire to make a film on our meeting, our differences, the places we crossed, the friends we knew.”
UntitledTestimonies of Arab immigrants in France, the disenchantment of the "European dream".
this is a series of 6 films, all made in or near the ukrainian city of Uman (one film is missing from the preview dvd, a film about the pilgrimage of hassidic jews to the city each year, named Nachman Uman)
It is 1962 in the small provincial city of Geel, the students of the Techical Institute work in the construction of a small non identified flying object. Mister Joncker is an inventor and the brain of this project. Few years later three authors from Belgium present the result of the investigation: the secrets of the Geel UFO. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Night. A terrace on a hillside. Children's voices. A poem. A song. A fragment of time, a moment out of time. Ghostly figures, as if struggling to exist, even here, in their own land. notes: Experimental documentary, filmed in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territories.
Lonely housewife in 1950's suburbia needs the freedom of a low priced Ford to avoid being a prisoner in her own home. (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.)
UntitledDervishes on their twirling the keep their hands open. The palm of the one hand looks on the sky and the other looks on the earth. It's a symbol of connection. Dervish became the intermediate of all universe from the pray and the nirvana. In the same way the video try to show this connection between man and woman, the balance that they try to succeed through twirling around. The distance is always there in love, and the vanity of trying to become one. This action accompanied by the “Song-Pray” of Sufis (Dervishes). In the video the song is the yelling of a child trying to make us clear the childish feeling of the action which became a game and the vanity of connection that is unable.