About media manufacturing a opinion state by using population fears and desires. News from the time about the Algerian conflict and the Independence and about what this possibility meant to france.
UntitledBetween 1877 and 1930, governments and private entrepreneurs organized in several European and American cities real Human Zoos, in which men and women of other races and cultures were exhibited in cardboard sets, separated by moats and fences, suffering a humiliating climate and conditions. They are the possessions of the Empire. The success is enormous, the public crowds to see face to face the "other" turned into an object.
UntitledLike most visionaries, William Burroughs takes his inner war outside the walls, to fight against the evil spirits of power and control that roam the human race. How do these "alien spirits" get us to want always more, better, newer, disregarding the consequences? For Burroughs, it´s simple: we are the junky and the pusher, locked in a deadly embrace of desire.
UntitledA compilation of childhood songs sung by various adults that the author comes across.
Political conflicts...
UntitledOn December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Five of these UN member countries are today the biggest arms dealers in the world. Made with archive footage edited in fragments, WARdisease explore without chronology the equal posture of the people which are the toys of that economic reality. Men women children. Run cry fall die, be armed. And start again.
An aerial journey over an unspecified major western city. We see a large television screen that projects advertising images within public space, a heavily urbanized architecture, an occupied coast. At the same time, voices evoke meetings, failed or still to come, cinema as utopia and “the world as the will to represent”.