Two summers ago we travelled to the southern winter, almost letting ourselves be led by chance, our eyes open with our backs to the wind, looking to the ground to protect them from the dust of dunes near the beach. We stopped for a few days in a wind place, where there are no networks yet and the few visitors are respectful and mostly silent. With these people, we were only accompanied by animal-monuments, nothing within a radius of 300 kilometres (what more could you wish for). Then we saw a group of tourists arrive (maybe we're tourists of monuments or of the spirit). They stopped and stared. Elephants and people stare silently. The power of the moment is such that the devices to steal light and sound fall silent. We met Mariano and he spoke to us, without expecting or even wanting to understand... We remembered one night, catching our breath at the whales' greeting. Let's not fool ourselves, because we weren't looking for it, something changed.
Sur America
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Twenty videos filmed secretly in several prisons in Quito, Ecuador, over a three year period. Far from simply idealising participative mechanisms, the method used in this audiovisual project ensures that the inmates' point of view remains. Whether this point of view is mediated by learning techniques on graphics, or the inmates pose before the camera like actors, they are always fully aware of the work to be done and, at the same time, of the motivations behind this project. The clandestine nature of the camera and the non-hierarchical production process created emotional bonds that, in one case, went beyond the prison and were reproduced on the outside, affecting relatives and friends.
UntitledLong Meaningless Sessions of Frame Assembling.
A Mapuche family has been forced off the land they were occupying in the province of Chabut, Patagonia, through a court injunction initiated by the Benetton Group. As a result of this experience the Mapuche people will reveal that they are still very much alive and willing to fight for their culture and traditional rights. This video is also an information tool to activate an international campaign against the Italian multinational, which owns 900,000 hectares of land in Argentina, making it the major landowner in what was once known as "the breadbasket of the world". The first part of a more extensive work in progress.
UntitledKim, Harold, Miguel Duque, Ratablanca y Cross-T “We say there is social war when everything gets reduced to a plan. All of the possibilities for creation and existence that all of us want for ourselves, what we call life, require the availability of resource this purpose. Symbolic, imaginary, actual, physical resources. If this doesn't happen, then what is democracy? Democracy is a potentiality. Is the urge towards creativity and complexity, which exists as potential in every life, fulfilled or is it not fulfilled' If it is not fulfilled, then what is democracy? The way we see it, democracy means that those who produce the world can produce it entirely. Not that some produce it, and the rest obey”. Colectivo Situaciones, Argentina.
In Ecuador, the indigenous movement has one of the longest and most intense traditions of resistance in the history of modern Latin America. César Pilataxi, a Kichwa man from the Andean region, explains the reasons behind the confrontation between his community and Western interests.
Back in the old days, a 'maquila' was a “millers portion”, the amount of grain that farmers paid millers to process their grain. Now maquilas are tax-free factories set up in underdeveloped countries to produce their goods using cheap labour. In Nicaragua, 100,000 people work in maquilas, which pay $0.32/hour and violate all workers rights. The Nicaragua maquilas are virtually unknown to international public opinion, and essential to the supply of the US consumer market.
UntitledTwo opposing September elevens and related cross. September 11th 1973, military push in Chile. The tape explores the trans-textuality of memory while making an implicit critique of mass media and their depiction of violence. The fissure between these two aspects, as well as the friction between present, memory and historical pass, is the site from which the video sets itself forth.
UntitledA promotional documentary by Yanapi, an NGO based in El Alto where it provides support to poor and disadvantaged teenagers. This documentary shows how 2000 euros a month are enough to support and feed 60 girls at risk of social exclusion, give work to 15 people, and help a group of mothers to set up their own cooperative.
UntitledOut 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.
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