In 1971, CIA analyst Daniel Ellsberg shook America to its foundations when he smuggled a top-secret Pentagon study to the New York Times, which showed how president Nixon had consistently lied to the American people about the Vietnam War. Henry Kissinger called Ellsberg “the most dangerous man in America” who “had to be stopped at all costs.” But Ellsberg wasn't stopped, he fought back. Facing 115 years in prison, he continued speaking the truth and ensuing events surrounding the so-called Pentagon Papers led directly to Watergate and the downfall of President Nixon, and hastened the end of the Vietnam War.
The Black Panther Party galvanized millions of African Americans against police repression and brutality, upholding the right of armed self-defense. The government launched a campaign of murder, jailings and disinformation to destroy the BPP. This film documents the Chicago police murder of one of the most charismatic and effective Panther leaders, Illinois Party chapter chairman Fred Hampton.
UntitledThe Net explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology - a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, and a circling through themes of utopianism, anarchism, terrorism, CIA, LSD, Tim Leary, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, The Net exposes a hidden matrix of revolutionary advances, coincidences, and conspiracies.
UntitledChomsky covers U.S. policy, focusing on examples of U.S. terror. The content will engender insight and thought not only on the immediate events, but the whole social and economic context, the efficacy of dissent, the desirability of change. Sponsored by the Culture and Technology Forum at MIT.
In a world living in fear of climate change, the nuclear industry has put its hand up as a solution. It claims that nuclear power generation produces zero carbon emissions... and people are listening. There are currently 27 nuclear power stations under construction, and projections for another 136 to be commenced within the next decade. The industry sees climate change as its saviour, as a way of making the nuclear industry look environmentally friendly – which, to be frank, it never has. But is there a risk that we might be jumping out of the carbon frying pan and into the plutonium fire? The Nuclear Comeback goes on a worldwide tour of the nuclear industry in search of answers – visiting some of the planet\'s most famous nuclear facilities.
Inside this cd-rom there is a hospital. A stage on which something could happen but apparently nothing does. We move through outbuildings. Suddenly we abandon the architectural journey. Medicines are presented as fetishes. Small objects to worship.
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. It's not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Alex Jones reveals who Obama works for, what lies he has told and his real agenda.
Angst, the forbidden book, Ron Random and the Dead Religion - an introduction to the Animal Obedience Institute. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Observatory Archives 2002
The Observatory Archives
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Observatory Archives 2002
The AObservatory Archives cover a huge range of works that are very different from one another, but share a commitment to freedom of expression and reflect on our individual and collective fears and pleasures. Together, they offer a multifaceted view, thousands of tiny eyes that probe and explore our world and announce other possible worlds. It is a discourse that above all values heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity, an antidote to the cloning and repetition of the current corporate mass media.