Women who talk about men. Women who accidental happen to be prostitutes. The men are their lovers, clients, true love. But also a father, a son, a shopkeeper from around the corner or a passer-by. Un unexpected open and warm look behind the scenes of the bright neon light windows of the prostitute neighbourhood in Brussels. Stories about routine, but also unexpected tenderness, waiting, burning desire and intimacy.

Tribute to the media-created woman.

Cover Girl Culture explores how the worlds of fashion, modeling, advertising and celebrity impact on our teens and young women. Who sets today's standards for beauty and how do these standards affect individuals and society? Who is responsible? Are there ways this can be changed' If so, who can/will change it?.

Observatory Archives 2000

/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020

Observatory Archives 2000

OVNI 2000 brings toughener a series of works which we hope may serve as a plural and multifaceted reflection on the notion of COMMUNITY, understood not as ideal, a closed and defined paradigm, but as a reality: spaces for social, anthropological, cultural and emotional relationships where we already find ourselves, irrespective of the acceptance, participation or conflict we develop within tem.

COMMUNITY as a key reality, often hijacked, transformed by media, caricatured by states, by markets and ideologies. The “community” in this way is separated from the necessities of day to day chores and realities. Singularities, unique people are kept from forming communities unless the declare conformity to ab identity, or pertain to a group. Instead masses od individuals are constructed, eliminating, however, whats is always alive underneath, what remains of a people, indescribable, without a nam, without boundaries, whose lack of definition gives it its force and its grace. (1)

(1) Contra el hombre Agustin Garcia Calvo. Fundació Anselmo Lorenzo. Madrid, 1996 . La Comunidad que viene. Giorgio Agamben. Pre-Textos. Valencia 1996 .

Thematical screenings

Hall and Auditorium.Simultaneous Screenings

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Montalegre 5. 08001 Barcelona

Real documents from casting sessions for "young mothers USA". 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

Real documents from casting sessions for "wonberbra girls". and the like. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

IT for Change, a network linked to the international network DAWN, has carried out a study of globalisation from a feminist perspective... Operators in the telecommunications call centers of the south work under extreme conditions in order to maintain contact with the north...

  This whirling dance tape is a visual odyssey from Beirut to Berlin, a woman’s story set in the oppressive civil fragmentation of two divided cities where images of destruction and reconstruction are intermingled. A cutting edge poetic short, that maps out the roots of inner and outer landscapes. Biba Non Biba is a powerful visual and sonic plea for change that is inclusionary not exclusionary. ARGOS Centre for Art and Media / Biba non Biba  

Twenty-eight members of filmmaker Claudia Lisboa's family have been operated at least once by her brother, who is a plastic surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her sister Juliana can't look angry thanks to her anti-wrinkle injections, Sergio himself has undergone four nose reductions, and their mother has had so many facelifts she is ageless. Claudia is the only one who has been spared the knife, and that's a real eyesore for the rest of them. She calls herself a “beauty refugee” and lives in Sweden, far away from the obsessions of her Brazilian family. In this personal documentary the filmmaker tries to reconstruct her youth and explores her own penchant for perfection.