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An aero-anthropological study of Silicon Valley USA. The Bureau of Inverse Technology, an information agency, sends its spy plane BIT PLANE [wingspan 31''] to the heart of Silicon Valley to investigate progress in the Information Age. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
"My Brothers and Sisters. . . It's time to go downtown." The Latin King and Queen Nation, once the most dangerous gang in New York City, face resistance from the press, the city government and the police in their struggle to escape crime and become a Black Panther-style street political movement.
The founders of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale are interviewed in this culturally significant historical film. The film intertwines footage of a Black Panther Party protest with scenes from the interviews. Huey Newton describes The Black Panther Party as "the vanguard of the revolution" and discusses the police brutality that is commonplace in African American neighborhoods and calls for the equal treatment in the judicial system in which biased White juries judge Blacks. Bobby Seale outlines the 10 points of the Black Panther Party Program which are, (1) Freedom (2) Full Employment (3) Decent Housing (4) End of Robbery of Black Communities by Whites (5) Education (6) Exemption of Blacks from Military Service (7) End police brutality and murder of Blacks (8) All Blacks to be released from jail and prison (9) Fair Trails (10) Land, Bread, Housing, & Education.
UntitledThe film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years - rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable.
“Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I” examines the devastating conflict and Western political intrigue that laid the foundations for wars, coups, revolts and military interventions in the Middle East. After the end of World War I, most of the Ottoman Empire was carved up into “spheres of influence,” controlled mostly by the British and French. The remaining territories became the modern state of Turkey in 1923 - after a live-year struggle by Turkish nationalists against Western domination.
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary, computer graphics, dramatisations, and investigative journalism, "BORDERS" probes the unsettling paradoxes behind immigration, drugs, Star Wars, and other topics.
Every year, trafficking of human beings for the sex trade puts hundreds of thousands of women throughout the world at risk of losing their freedom, suffering physical and emotional harm, working in degrading and sometimes life-threatening situations, and being cheated of their earnings. Most of these women had travelled abroad to find better jobs or to see the world, never imagining that they would enter such a hellish world of crime and servitude.
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