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              Mast Qalandar
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS001-0003 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Above all, Mast Qalandar (Ecstasy) is a look at heterodoxy and a celebration of its existence. Qalandars are a Sufi brotherhood of roaming dervishes who once ranged through an arch that crossed Asia, from Turkey to Pakistan and India. They are characterized by extreme mystical devotion and their revolutionary and anti-dogmatic attitudes within Islam, such as use of hachis and the rejection of alcohol and free submission to Haqq, the truth, which they see as the absence of limits rather than something which narrows and defines horizons. “Mast Qalandar” immerses us in the ritual encounter of these dervishes around the grave of the brotherhood's founder in Pakistan. A vision of heir devotion to “the beloved” that leads them into trance and ecstasy, where death means simply to “draw aside a veil”. Available online until December 27th 2020.

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              L'Ordre
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0108 · Item · 1974
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Lepers banished to a Greek island. A society that organises itself to resist rejection and abandonment. In 1904, the Greek government decided to confine lepers, considered dangerous to society, in the fortress of Spinalonga, a peninsula north of Crete. There, while they await death, they seek a living. Raimondakis, the son of a lawyer, is their spokesman. He does not accept being locked up in handcuffs when he has committed no crime. He does not want to be pitied, he just needs love. Pollet is commissioned by the pharmaceutical company Sandoz to talk about the last days of leprosy in Europe, which he transforms into a profound reflection on the differences between the disease and the supposed normality. The camera travels through the abandoned spaces of the Greek island of Spinalonga, officially called Kalydon, a leper colony from 1904 to 1956, the year in which an effective treatment put an end to compulsory confinement and the sick began to be transferred to hospitals in Athens.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS004-0015 · Item · 2007
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Tarek and Nordin narrate the history and struggles of their organisation. In the midst of the election campaign, their memories of the constant lies and failures of different governments over the last thirty years are put into perspective, somewhat tinged with resentment.

              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0049 · Item · 2007
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              “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.

              La marca Barcelona
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS003-0007 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              A documentary that criticizes Barcelona's mammoth urban restructuring process, which is carried out without the participation of the people who live in and use the city according to a model that chooses to ignore social memory, especially when it comes to the working class. Through the voices of some of the people behind this process, the documentary shows a side to this chapter of the city's history that is usually not presented by the media.

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              La Makabra
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS002-0003 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              La Makabra is a squatted factory, usually occupied by around fifty people. It is open to the public, and it works as a self-managed cultural centre in Barcelona's Poble Nou district. This is one of the social and artistic collectives affected by 22@, the urban design plan responsible for restructuring the district, which plans to evacuate the building. In spite of this situation the squatters continue performing shows and cabarets, because that is how they use this space, placing creativity up against consumption.

              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS003-0001 · Item · 2004
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              “Radical Imagination (Carnivals of Resistance)” is the second part of the “Entre sueños” (Between Waking and Sleeping) series. It deals with the “Global carnival against capital”, an action staged by the Reclaim the Streets movement in London on June 18, 1999, which brought urban commercial life to a standstill. The City of London, a world financial centre and a major hub of international capital, was paralysed, and the protest developed into an epicentre of a political current that reappropriated the idea of the carnival as a tool that points to new approaches of the occupation and formation of public space in recent anti-globalization movements.

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              La Couleur du Sacrifice
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0100 · Item · 2007
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The tragic participation of Africans from the French colonies in major world conflicts is a very important issue. We have just commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Europe. Unfortunately, not a single African or Asian who fought alongside the allies has been honoured together with his French, American and English brothers in arms....

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              La Ciudad de los Otros
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0087 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The civic behaviour bylaws recently passed by Barcelona City Council and applied to other Catalan municipalities bear a striking resemblance to Fraga's 1965 “Keep Spain Clean” campaign. Sex workers, skaters, artists, social activists... spoke out against the new legislation. The video covers the numerous demonstrations that were organised against the civic bylaws.

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              La Caravanne de Mé Aïsha
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS002-0007 · Item · 2002
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The life story of an elderly Mauritanian woman, Aïcha Messaoud, who spent her whole life as part of Sheik Ma-el-Aïnïne's distinguished family of nomads and now lives in the small Moroccan village of Tata, in the northern part of Western Sahara. The filmmaker sets out to trace the memories of her heroine. Stage after stage, she travels through thousands of kilometres across the desert, encountering the descendants of the Sheik.

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