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              Earthlings
              Earthlings
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0007 · Item · 2007
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              A documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) that also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called “non-human providers”. Includes an in-depth study into pet stores, puppy mills and animal shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession.
              Edward Said. The Myth of the Clash of Civilization
              Edward Said. The Myth of the Clash of Civilization
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0024 · Item · 1998
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              One of the century's leading cultural analysts examines the dangerous myths guiding American foreign policy in the post-cold war era. In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking - that conflicts between different and clashing "civilizations" (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world. Said argues that collapsing complex, diverse and contradictory groups of people into vast, simplistic abstractions has disastrous consequences. Presenting instead a vision of the "coexistence" of difference, Said concludes with the fundamental challenge that faces humanity at the turn of the millennium.
              Edward Said.Orientalism
              ES OVNI RSC-1182 · Item · 1998
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Edward Said talks about the context within which the book "Orientalism" was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient." Said argues that the Western (especially American) understanding of the Middle East as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples.

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              Eisenhower for President
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-3000 · Item · 1952
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The "I Like Ike" animated television commercial, produced by Roy Disney and Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
              Electronic Fables
              ES OVNI RSC-1398 · Item · 1971
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              "Electronic Fables" are an example of the early work of Paik cn electronic manipulation of the image, before the famous synthesizer invensión Paik / Abe Video. This collection of work includes examples of germ appropriation of fragments of mass media, deconstruction and manipulation as political and cultural criticism.
              Electrophase
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S005-SS003-0006 · Item · 1995
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              "Electrophase' is a video-graphic expansion of Mark Bain's 'machine environment' installation 'Interphase'. Bain's computer-manipulated images of this mechanical sculpture - which, like the tape, comes across as the creation of a contemporary and lyrical constructivist - are combined with differing, machine-like sounds. The pulsating image is dynamic, and constantly changing in colour and tempo. The sound, which appears to have been injected directly into the electronic, abstracted images, both influences and directs the image, and vice-versa. Ultimately this gives rise to a form of synthesis whereby the seperate elements fuse together into a surprising and alternative single entity, which reaches, and intrigues, our senses as 'Electrophase', a new 'synthetic …

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