The video intervention examines a scene from Antonioni's L'eclisse and frames the racist and sexist structures with which the film operates. The main character of the film visits her neighbour, who is the daughter of Italian colonisers. Her apartment is full of souvenirs. The female visitor, inspired by the interior, "blacks up" and adopts an imaginary ‘wild' and ‘tribal' dance. The video intervention tries to reveal the patterns of framing non-white culture as ‘otherness', a projection charged with a conception of uncultivated wilderness. In combination with an objectified female body, this position connects otherness with ‘naturalness' and ‘bareness'.
... 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledA video about one of our most problematic social issues. Immigration, testimonies and declarations. Portraits which reveal and re-contextualise cultural, religious and racial intolerance in Spain. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
The voice of the tour guide takes the viewer through wobbly Super 8 pictures which Irshaid's Palestinian father took on a family trip to Palestine / Israel in the 1970s. An ironic portrait offering an alternative to the images in the mass media.
Step-by-step demonstration of jam and jelly making by the short- boil (pectin) method and long-boil method. (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.)
Imad and Ahmed are two teenagers living in Nablus (West Bank) and working in the city market to contribute to the household economy. Imad wants to be a lawyer and Ahmed wants to join the Palestinian resistance.