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Stella
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2359 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Stella has the stuff of melodrama. Of course, it isn't as neatly constructed as a Chaplin film, but its basic narrative elements are the same. Stella spends her days begging at the Oberkampf metro station, but no one really sees her, just as no one sees the blind woman selling flowers in "City Lights". She has left everything behind for love. She has chosen to live illegally in France for her husband who was stricken with a serious illness, convinced she would find a doctor in this country able to save his life. She manages but at what cost? She herself soon falls ill. Without a job or money, with no legal status, she waits for her treatment to end so she can return to Romania. Thus begins an endless wait. Stella has to learn to live against her own principles whilst in constant fear of identity controls. While the film renders her anguish and suffering palpable, it also portrays a woman who never gives up, who is determined to solve her problems one after the other, with the means she has available. Underneath her exhausted frame, there lies an iron will. Most of the film takes place inside Stella's house, a shack in a shantytown in Saint Denis, trapped between the motorway and the suburban railway tracks. It unveils her daily life, and much more: what we perceive as a permanent and degrading situation, Stella sees as a transition, a moment in time suspended between her past as a factory worker in Romania “ruined” by the fall of Ceaucescu and the subsequent transition to liberal economy, and her future as a pensioner in Braila. This is a woman who has always had faith in her star, and her star is Love. The opening shot of the film is of an anxious Stella, waiting in the rain for Marcel. One of the last sequences shows Stella and Marcel, sitting together on a bench in the courtyard of the Salpetrière Hospital, just before Stella has an operation. Their love is stronger than any test that Fate, Law or History can invent.
Steal this Film
Steal this Film
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS002-0008 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Documenting the steadfast movement against intellectual property, Part 1 of Steal This Film takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy (copyright infringement) culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau), and The Pirate Party. It includes a critical analysis of the legal action taken by the Hollywood film industry to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO, in order to pressure Swedish police into conducting an illegal search and seizure for the purpose of disrupting a competitive distribution channel: The Pirate Bay tracker for P2P Internet file sharing with the BitTorrent protocol.

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STATES OF PASSAGE
STATES OF PASSAGE
ES ES-OVNI DIF-S025 · Series · 2024
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

14 December from 18:00h to 20:00h

Centre Cultural La Marineta, Mollet del Vallès

Free entrance / Limited seats

States of Passage shows an ‘alterity’ of subjects and cultures, which by constituting a radical alternative to the dominant and homogeneous thought, both in terms of socio-cultural spheres and small communities, they challenge the spatial-temporal and anthropocentric convictions of control and knowledge of any visible and invisible phenomena. It is precisely in terms of the invisibility or visibility of the apparent, that which has prompted us to elaborate this essay with images, and the word as evocation. This video-essay is a testimony of this attempt: the subjects that appear are marginalised beings or entities, self-exiles, ascetics, primitives, etc., in and from the margins of ‘civilisation’.

The material used consists partly of open source videos available on the net and re-edited, some available on the OVNI archive, and others created specifically for this project.

Authors cited in the video essay States of Passage:

Scott Barley, Philippe Descola, Federico Lanchares, Ciro Guerra, Xavi Hurtado, Gian Antonio Gilli, Toni Cots, Alessandro Quaranta, Pavel Lungin, Ben Rivers, Bruno Latour, Carlos Casas, Toni Serra *) Abu-Ali.

This video essay is a non-profit research project for educational purposes.