In this documentary video, La Jornada and Canal Seis de Julio present a 10-year chronicle of the Zapatista movement, from before the public irruption of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, on January 1st, 1994, until the disappearance of Aguascalientes and the creation of the Caracoles in August 2003.

In this documentary video, La Jornada and Canal Seis de Julio present a 10-year chronicle of the Zapatista movement, from before the public irruption of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, on January 1st, 1994, until the disappearance of Aguascalientes and the creation of the Caracoles in August 2003.

Public security and the imposition of the Mexican armed forces in different parts of Chiapas: Nazareth (San Manuel), La Galeana, La Garrucha...

Many of the indigenous communities in Chiapas have no access to potable water. Water and Autonomy looks at this serious problem and how the Zapatista communities are solving it. Through solidarity and training from internationals many communities are now building their own water systems. Members of the communities speak about ways the water project fits into their autonomous process, helps fight sickness, has provided a means of reflection for how to protect existing water sources and represents another means of resistance to globalization projects like the Plan Puebla Panama.

"The Reality seen through this camera is more Real." - Subcomandante Marcos. A look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.

Since the 2003, the mexican government has been trying to build the La Parota hydroelectric dam. If built, it would flood several communities south of Acapulco. The campesinos who have resisted this project show us their lives, work, and love of the land in "And the River Flows On."

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An Informal Gaze (Una Mirada Informal) is the result of the interest born from the standardized pricing of different products, the symbolic value that we give them and the attitude of the salesmen to this phenomenon. Our chosen subject was the rubbish collected and classified in Mexico City and Copenhagen. The interpersonal relationships that are established in the black economy, above all with regard to illegal street trading, are the focal point of this proposal. We feel it is significant how not only the buyer and seller play a role, but also how a whole social structure regulates and permits – or represses – the trading which is carried out. Displaying merchandise and hiding from the law; running, looking, being seen, being invisible, all these are ways of behaving. What we tried to do is to identify some of the relationships that are established in an urban environment.