The founders of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale are interviewed in this culturally significant historical film. The film intertwines footage of a Black Panther Party protest with scenes from the interviews. Huey Newton describes The Black Panther Party as "the vanguard of the revolution" and discusses the police brutality that is commonplace in African American neighborhoods and calls for the equal treatment in the judicial system in which biased White juries judge Blacks. Bobby Seale outlines the 10 points of the Black Panther Party Program which are, (1) Freedom (2) Full Employment (3) Decent Housing (4) End of Robbery of Black Communities by Whites (5) Education (6) Exemption of Blacks from Military Service (7) End police brutality and murder of Blacks (8) All Blacks to be released from jail and prison (9) Fair Trails (10) Land, Bread, Housing, & Education.
UntitledAfter First Contact and Joe Leah's Neighbours, Black Harvest is the third film of the Highlands Trilogy. It charts the progress of Joe Leahy in convincing the Caniga tribes people to join him in a coffee growing venture. He provides the money and the expertise; They supply land and labour. He stands to make 60%; the tribes people 40%. Tribal wars and the drop in coffee prices on the world market conspire to defeat the venture. Always suspect because of his mixed-race status, Joe is in deep trouble with the tribes people when his promises of riches fail to materialize. As he organizes to migrate with his family to Australia, he is a saddened man with an uncertain future.
"My Brothers and Sisters. . . It's time to go downtown." The Latin King and Queen Nation, once the most dangerous gang in New York City, face resistance from the press, the city government and the police in their struggle to escape crime and become a Black Panther-style street political movement.
In this documentary, director Ethem Ozguven records the gradually disappearing culture of fishermen in small Turkish towns and villages on the Mediterranean coast. He only occasionally lets local fisherman talk to his disinterested camera, as they nostalgically recall the days when fishing could maintain an entire family without any problems. In recent years, however, they can barely scrape by due to various directives limiting fishing an ever-declining fish stocks. The film also draws attention to the fact that it is not just fish that are disappearing from these places, but the previously numerous Greek community as well.
UntitledSheep breeders who see their sheep die from dioxin. An environmental teacher who fights against environmental crimes. Farmers who cultivate land polluted by the nearby dumps. Stories, reports and testimony of the massacre of a land. We are in Italy, in the Campania region where there are 1200 unauthorised toxic waste dumps. In the background, the Camorra business that uses lorries and mechanical diggers instead of pistols. A Camorra with white collars, deviated entrepreneurial activity and colluded institutions...
UntitledAn aero-anthropological study of Silicon Valley USA. The Bureau of Inverse Technology, an information agency, sends its spy plane BIT PLANE [wingspan 31''] to the heart of Silicon Valley to investigate progress in the Information Age. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Biography of stone is an angry roar, a roar of indignation and opposition to the crimes and cruelty that occur all over the world, a cry against the harshness of stone that refuses all dialogue.
Images from the Diary of Someone Waiting