2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
Since 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."
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.
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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.
"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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