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In 2012, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence and the theatrical re-release of the restored version of the film "Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès", René Vautier looks back on his career as a filmmaker involved in anti-colonial struggles.

Reflection on the glamor and the deadlock of integration in the framework of an imperialist nation state. Reflection for alternative decolonial Western modernity.

In global capitalism, the movement of bodies through borders takes the form of an asymmetrical dualism. One side of the border acts as a retaining wall, a knife that cuts territories, bodies, and genders. It is not driven to block access to the central zones of capital, but to bureaucratically manage the legality of the migratory flow, forking it into being and non-being. The other side of the border adopts a flexible interface, expanding endlessly in the space of the “other”, while preserving the impermeability of knowledge and identities. The border has ceased to be a peripheral space, it becomes centre. Its implosion is expressed in a whole range of institutions, security devices, and parallel agencies that inhabit our cities, forming an expanding inner border. The logic of the border is now spreading to all systems of political and cognitive power. In this sense, we can speak of borders as laboratories for a new totalitarian system. Proclamations that were once the domain of openly racist sectarian groups are now being absorbed into governmental and media discourse. Colonialism is also a state of the soul, based on alterity in constant opposition. Always an “other” to criticise, occupy, conquer... never loving contemplation or dialogue for the transformation of being... being without borders.

“Le cercle des noyés” (The circle of the drowned men) is the name given to a group of black political prisoners in Mauritania who were arrested in 1986 and incarcerated in the city of Oulata's former Colonial Fort. The documentary follows the subtle mental process of one of the ex-prisoners as he remembers his own story and that of his fellow prisoners. Like an echo, we see a series of images of the sites of their confinement – bare, stripped of all traces of this past.

El ciclo De lo imaginado a lo tangible, propone presentar ideas abstractas que nos ayuden a reflexionar sobre la realidad donde vivimos, inmediata, concreta y material. Toni Serra, codirector de los Archivos OVNI, presenta diferentes piezas de las más de 2000 que este archivo audiovisual ha reunido a lo largo de 21 años, ofreciéndonos una visión incómodo del siglo donde vivimos, pero también los sueños y deseos de unas sociedades que no se ven reflejadas en el imaginario de los medios corporativos.

The cycle From the Imagined to the Tangible, proposes to present abstract ideas that help us to reflect on the reality where we live, immediate, concrete and material. Toni Serra, co-director of the OVNI Archives presents different pieces of the more than 2000 that this audiovisual archive has gathered over 21 years, offering us an uncomfortable vision of the century where we live, but also the dreams and desires of societies that do not see each other reflected in the imaginary of corporate media. Museum of World Cultures, Barcelona. 4th October 2016.

Encuentro abierto con Toni Serra abu ali (Arxius OVNI) y los autores de los vídeos del programa ACTE 34: La Ciudad Otra: Marc Almodóvar, David Batlle y Giovanni Cioni, que plantearán una reflexión y una discusión abierta a partir de sus trabajos en particular y también sobre el devenir de las ciudades en los conflictos del capitalismo global. Fundación Suñol 3 de octubre de 2016.

Open conversation with Toni Serra *) abu ali (OVNI Archives) and the authors of the videos of ACTE 34: The Other City: Marc Almodóvar, David Batlle and Giovanni Cioni, who will reflect on their works in particular and open discussion on the evolution of cities in the conflicts of global capitalism. Suñol Foudation, 3rd October, 2016.