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              Slippery Traces
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0001 · Item · 1996
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Documents the march by hundreds of U.S. veterans and survivors of Hurricane Katrina through the ninth ward of New Orleans on the third anniversary of the war in Iraq.

              Veterans Kelly Dougherty and Tina Garnanez led the last leg of the week-long March for Peace and Justice from Mobile, AL to NewOrleans, LA. Kelly and Tina talk about being recruited in high school, what it's like to be a soldier in Iraq and why they went to New Orleans. Footage of New Orleans and Iraq devastation and Ritsu Katsumata's blues track punctuate a call for peace fromtwo young women who experienced war. While working on 20 Something, a series of portraits of young women intheir twenties, I met Kelly Dougherty, a young woman who was living in my hometownin Colorado. Kelly joined the National Guard when she was 17. She was still in highschool and desperately looking for a way to get money to go to college. In a pre-9/11 world, she thought that if she joined the National Guard she would help outwith natural disasters in Colorado. She did not expect to be shipped halfway aroundthe globe to occupy Iraq. When she returned from Iraq, she went to a peaceconference and became one of the founding members of Iraq Vets Against the War. WhenKelly told me about the Walkin' to New Orleans March for Peace and Justice, Idecided meet her in New Orleans and document her participation. I met Tina Garnanezat the march and found that her story was very similar to Kelly's. Walkin' toNew Orleans is my way of giving these two articulate young women an opportunity totell their stories to a wider audience. I made the video short so it can be usedwhere ever young people congregate as a counter to the slick lines and videos of themilitary recruiters.

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              Slingshot Hip Hop
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0080 · Item · 2007
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              SlingShot Hip Hop is a documentary film that focuses on the daily life of Palestinian rappers living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel. It aims to spotlight alternative voices of resistance within the Palestinian struggle and explore the role their music plays within their social, political and personal lives.

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              Slim Hopes
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0081 · Item · 1995
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              In this video, Jean Kilbourne offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising imagery and the devastating effects of that imagery on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and it provides a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising. Using over 150 magazine and television ads, this illustrated lecture is divided into seven sections: Impossible Beauty, Waifs and Thinness, Constructed Bodies, Food and Sex, Food and Control, The Weight-Loss Industry, and Freeing Imaginations.

              Sky Burial
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS005-0010 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              One of the funeral rites commonly practiced in Tibet is the Sky Burial, an ancient tradition that reveals a profound respect for nature and understanding of life. The Sky Burial ritual is known "jha-tor", which means the giving of alms to birds. The bodies of the dead are offered to vultures in a gesture of kindness towards living beings... a final act of generosity. We witness this funeral ritual from the Drigung Monastery in northern Tibet. To the Tibetans, merging with the sky after death is a holy event that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.

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              Sift
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-2967 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Sift is an intimate glimpse into the thoughts of fifteen young Arab women as they sort through the shifting and often contradictory expectations accompanying the changes in the rapidly developing Arabian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar. As the first generation of graduates of Education City, a 2,500-acre campus in Doha which hosts branch campuses of some of the world\\\\'s leading universities, as well as many other educational and research institutions, the young women represent part of the very change they now contend with. The film juxtaposes their voices as they describe their experiences and reflections upon entering the professional environment with still and moving images of the desert, sea, and emerging urbanity of Doha. The relationship of sound to image establishes a gestalt of dualities that is characteristic of the current environmental, social, and economic transformation: modern - traditional, western - eastern; written - oral. Extensive video and audio editing captures Qatar's rapid development process - which removes the past and inserts the future on a daily basis – from a point of view somewhere between the viewer and subject. While audio interviews transition between individual, harmonious expressions and multiple, dissonant voices, video footage shows the new and remarkable alongside the old and taken-for-granted, revealing a time which is either past or future, but not present.

              Shy Guy
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-2663 · Item · 1947
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Phil, new in his high school, follows his father's suggestion and observes the most popular students to determine what makes them popular. By offering to help others he becomes popular himself and sheds his shyness. (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.)