'Be more than a spectator - doing politics in and beyond the cinema' The curtain is rising for globale05 - spectators to protagonists, consumers to producers. The world in close-up for seven days: Exploitation and deprivation of rights, bordercrossing and deportation, war and corporate power, fight and hope. Cinema as a space for a critical public and films as a political medium - in and beyond the movie theatre. The globale is a one week filmfestival that takes place in Berlin, presenting films, organizing discussions and offering workshops for and together with a diverse group of participants. It has a special part dedicated to getting in touch with and starting discussions with pupils and teachers. Until mid-2005 part of the globale05 program is going on tour through different towns in Germany, perhaps even Europe. (Throughout the year we are involved in political fights and activities going on around us, in what we call political interventions: supporting the anti-deportation campaign by our cooperating partner FIB (refugee initiative Brandenburg), participating in the European Social Forum, organizing workshops during left-wing-union conventions with our partner labourB.) Organized by a heterogeneous group of political activists, artists and filmaddicts the globale is an invitation to common reflexion and participation - because political films need political movement.
Untitled"El Paraíso es de los Extraños" is a (de)tour through the ways in which the image of the Arab-Islamic world is constructed in Western culture, by analysing the recurrence of particular stereotypes, their origins, and their persistence in the visual arts (traditional fine arts, photography, film..), the mass media and advertising. It focuses specially on our own cultural context here and now: Morocco as the nearest ?other?, the myth of Al Ándalus as a model for exploiting integratable anomalies, and the media treatment of contemporary migration phenomena.
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Indigenous word-doors, mythological tales, stories that are sung. Eduardo Paqui, Muinane chief of the Caqueta Colombiano, sings the Tikuna song of the tiger (Xavinayú) to Balita, my cat from the Calera Bogotana, in Barcelona. Landscapes of fusion, the inner jungle.
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Xperimental Eros invokes a shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our largest sex organ - the brain. Using exotic tropes and erotic footage from the world's oldest genre, this program of ardent auteurs spin grindhouse dross into arthouse gold with perverse panache. Be it tales of sexual obsession, rejected letters to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr. Nude Trucker Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo... nor above deconstruction.
UntitledSince the 2003, the mexican government has been trying to build the La Parota hydroelectric dam. If built, it would flood several communities south of Acapulco. The campesinos who have resisted this project show us their lives, work, and love of the land in "And the River Flows On."
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.