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universal tourist
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3362 · Item · 2010
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

‘There is one moment, which unifies all travellers. It is the culmination of travel. It is the encounter with the global icons of travel. In a world of simulations we have seen all these icons long before travelling takes place: On television, in magazines, books and on the internet. In a constant search of the real we feel now, in the moment of encounter, the urgent need to reassure ourselves of the existence of these places and thereby of our own existence. Us, the travellers - in the position of the traveller. Us, as part of reality, as part of the world, as part of history. The moment captured for our return home when we write the stories of our lives: I was here, so I am. I travel, so I am.' ‘Universal tourist' is an experimental video, a documentary observation and a sociological and cultural study of a global phenomenon of mass consumer culture: it interrogates tourist photographic practices - the holiday snapshot. The video observes tourists while they act as tourists. It takes pictures of people taking pictures. It records them while they record themselves. The photographic pose of the traveller - a frozen moment to store and save memories of a staged version of how one likes to see and remember oneself is explored as a moving image. What happens before and after the snapshot? The ‘decisive moment' of photography extends and reveals more about photographic ‘truth', ‘real', staged and authentic moments. The amateur ‘accidental aesthetic' of the snapshot – immediate and raw glimpses of time – is captured on video and edited in a dramatic structure that accelerates to a furious paced trip around the globe. At each given moment of time there are hundreds and thousands of travellers from all over the world performing the same ritual over and over again. when we take pictures, we appropriate the power of the semiotic landscape by placing ourselves in the center of the resonating image, either figuratively by "taking" the picture ourselves and placing it in our personal contexts, or literally by placing ourselves or our family and friends in front of the scene that is now literally made to function simultaneously as a background for experience, location of experience, and proof of our experience of the signs of "there-ness" of the site.

UNLITh
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2094 · Item · 2007
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

An abstract dialogue between men and black dogs. In this cold and hostile atmosphere, their gestures and reactions cause subtle tensions to arise. Aggression and perplexity mutate the bodies and distort their environment.

Unruly Fan, Unruly Star
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S005-SS005-0008 · Item · 1996
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Millner casts herself as a fan whose life has an uncanny similarity to that of Roseanne Barr's televised replica. When Millner visits the set of Roseanne, the "excess" of fan and star meets in a comic finale that threatens life as we know it.

Unseen Beauty Unhidden Truth
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3349 · Item · 2010
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Manas in Western Assam of India is a veritable haven of lush green forests, It was down graded to the status of world Heritage site in danger because of the result of political and social up heavel that took place in the Bodo-dominated areas surrounding Manas which presented a new danger to an already fragile ecosystem. Now in maintaining the Manas National Park many N.G.Os took active steps in various fields. One such N.G.O. named Mousi Gandri Eco Tourism society conserved and preserved a hatching Burmese rock python with 100's of eggs. The hatched young ones are released in batches in different zones of National Park with the hope that balance in the eco system would be maintained. A hundred percent successful hatching of python under human protection in nature is a rare phenomenon.

Unterm Zelt
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S007-SS005-0006 · Item · 1993
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

A circus travels around Germany, 60 people live constantly in a community. Now 18, Ramona Barelli has watched the workers raise the circus tent in each city since she was a little girl. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

untitled
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S006-SS003-0032 · Item · 2007
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

44 - This text based animation informs the audience about it being dedicated to all things that could have been as well. Thereby the movie offers a space of possibilities that can be used and filled by the imagination of the audience. # 61 - this sequence informs the audience that it is exclusively presented to justify the time and financial effort that it took to work it out, to present it and to be perceived.

Untitled (band in a studio)
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2148 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

In the opening scene we see a performer playing his guitar frenetically, followed by a scene showing a band standing in the centre of a space full of cameras and lights, waiting, looking bewildered. The footage documents a real activity which at the same time remains inexplicable and uncanny.