A "fundamentalist" documentary. Take That, Abba and Elvis Presley: on three video clips we see the sign of Scorpio Rising that corrupts the interior but leaves intact the surface.

A video essay by Alessandro Quaranta and Toni Cots, in collaboration with CRA’P – Creation Practices and Artistic Research. 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.  

el Ring y sus Titanes La lucha libre in the top of world Lucha libre is a sport-entertainment born in Mexico in 1930 as a consequence of the NA wrestling. el Ring y sus Titanes tells the story of the meetings that take place between La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia. Cholitas, men, dwarfs, superheroes and monsters were the focus of the ring and reflect, in a surreal spectacle a complex reality as the one in Bolivia, in a fresco of the idiosyncrasies, contamination, and culture's myths Andean people. For the Luchadores doesn't matter border's definition between reality and fiction, between the game or victory: what it really matters is to keep fighting.

The video “looks” at the semantic/ experiential micro-universe made of remembers, by showing some frames of an old super 8 film put on the lens of a mini-dv camera, where the figure of a child means a game dimension typical of the old Super 8. Moreover, it “looks” at the cinema as a sort of material to model. The “schizophrenic eye” – the dialectic question between the mechanical and the real eye - is another aspect of the video, that wants to explore the reality and, in particular, the collapse between its mechanical reproduction and the Nature. The interaction between the artfulness of an old film and the automatic digital reproduction made of pixels, here is seen as a concrete act of love able to give an artistic dimension to this new digital mechanic. The title “eidola”, from the Greek “eidolon” (that means ghost, image) in the Democrito and Leucippo's atomistic philosophy indicates the images of the things that are generated from the collision between the physical atoms of the body and their organs of sense. “The objects continually send in the space around them the images of themselves. These images, called “edola”, go into the eye – by the pupil – so that they can reveal themselves. The air is full of no material images that fly in every direction. The objects constantly send images of themselves, as the snakes lost their skin when they grow up. A sort of perpetual transformation seems to be the ultimate characteristic of the bodies. And the air is constantly crossed by these ghosts, thin transparent coverings”. Democrito