On January 15, 2008, Israeli tanks destroyed the Peace Park, the only public park in the Gaza Strip. It had been a donation from the city of Barcelona to the residents of the Gaza Strip. The documentary gathers the testimonies of the neighbours hours after the attack. If they need to recover their public spaces, do we have to simply pay what Israel breaks?
- Barcelona.
After WWII, Americans teenagers discovered leisure . They no longer had to work to support their families, and they had almost nothing to do. It seems like a cliche now, but bored teenagers were a completely new phenomenon, young minds eager to explore the limits of perception and pleasurable experience. A wave of corporate and government educational videos, responded to the situation by presenting a world of fears and hidden dangers. They were designing the personalities of the future, standardized citizens, with a new set of behaviors and new fears and taboos.
Gibbons takes a morbid casting to the Barbie doll, full of dark intentions toward that unattainable ideal of beauty.
Untitledwww.goarmy.com is a web site designed for the American army by Southern California University ICT. Technology and propaganda supported by a combination of corporations, university research departments and the army's futuristic projections (Future Combat Systems). In this section, through the filter of propaganda, we see future recruits and the process of immersion in army culture. A catalogue of psycho-emotional jabs to create the ideal soldier
UntitledOn June 4, 2008, Barack Obama spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C.
UntitledThe documentary Bandite gives back to the history of the Italian Resistance, the women support at the liberation fight as expression of parity and equality between gender, a crucial moment in which the women exit from their historical role of mothers, housewife and wife and assume that of criminal, clandestine, partisan. The women were not, as official historiography says, only simply assistants of the men partisans, cooks or nurses, many of them were guerrila, ready to take weapons for the liberation of all people. Not only the recovery of a part of the historical memory, often left in the oblivion, but also its re-thinking for the analysis of today and as example for a social and political renewal of the future.
The Moroccan flag is red. Red is one of the colours of Islam, but it is also the colour of the revolution. Two images. One is heroic : the flag. The other is trivial: young men strolling by. The two are joined through a song: Bandiera Rossa.