In Brasil, “Quilombo Country,” a documentary film shot on digital video, provides a portrait of rural communities called “quilombos” in Brazil, which were either founded by runaway slaves or begun from abandoned plantations. As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today. Largely unknown to the outside world, today these communities struggle to preserve a rich heritage born of resistance to oppression.
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Plan Rosebud 1 is focused on the recent social debate around the so-called Historic Memory Act in Spain, and the current relation between the sites of memory and the politics of memory, and the cultural industries, studied in detail, in our case, trough the war tourism and commemorative tourism (that forms the main part of the four scenarios that this first film contains).
Untitled"Paralysis - on the state of terror" is a documentary about our archival and records systems, and the role of images in constructing our past. The mental images of individual memory, the personal and subjective filing system of unique historical experiences that, when told, become eye-witness accounts, and archival material as a device/interface that configures an objective past, biding its time in image libraries all over the planet. A journey through subjective and objective history, guided by four characters: The Witness, a survivor of a nazi concentration camp; The Researcher, tracking and analyzing traces of the past; The Archival Material, source and extension of historical memory; and The Narrator, creating and directing a discourse where history impregnates the present and is revised.
UntitledFragmented childhood memories with striking images, to capture a feeling of awe and a sense of timelessness. The silence of the landscape is broken only by a voice, whose reminiscences conjure up the child's clear yet disturbing vision of the world. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
Out of Place is a deeper look at representation and self-representation, concentrating on aspects such as the concept of cultural identity as an ideal, a fantasy, as something that can be constructed. This video is the third part of the Palestine Project.
UntitledMorocco has forgotten them. In 1972, thousand of Moroccan Vietnamese families arrived at Rabat-Sale military base. Who has ever heard about them? Who remembers them now?.
Deliberations on death while a corpse is carefully cleaned and shrouded. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledTo find, 20 years later, the boy with whom he was kissed for the first time, the author, now unrecognizable for him, manages to put him in front of a camera with a "professional" pretext ...
UntitledMy grandfather is crazy. He does things that I do not understand. Dance, paint and look at the sky starry nights looking for some friends that are above his head. Plant the potatoes head down and make barracks for his friends. My grandfather is crazy, I think ... Also my mother and my father ... 1 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1993.
Memory of the Land, is a reflection of the human condition under the yoke of different forms of violence, collective memory and identity as forms of resilience. Palestine. A body is trapped at a checkpoint; an essential mechanism of the Israeli occupation. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence, which is aggressive and arbitrary and prevents and attacks its free movement and existence.