The author gets herpes after a single sexual encounter with a cow-boy. This video reflects on this experience and the consequences it also reviews with irony the figure of the cow boy in the American culture. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
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A sound-bite blitzkrieg challenging the messages we have been from our mainstream media and the government it serves.
UntitledRUN JANE, RUN Digital Stories by Survivors of Domestic Violence. Five Survivors. Five Strong Women. Five Engaging Stories. Marie grew up in a satanic cult. Pauletta's daughter was shot by her boyfriend. Christine was abused by her father. Kim's husband beat her. Shannon's father set the house on fire. The personal stories RUN, JANE, RUN were created in a Silence Speaks digital storytelling workshop for survivors of domestic violence. Alternately disturbing, shocking, enlightening, and encouraging, the stories reveal the determination of the women to survive, move on and thrive. Original music and animation complement home movie footage and personal photographs as each woman narrates her story.
Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit. 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.
UntitledRod Coronado is a Yaqui Native American who explains how the massacre of his people went hand in hand with the massacre of animals. The two are deeply interrelated, with the same aggressor: a system, a predatory culture. This realization led him to take an active part in ALF actions to protect animals from cruelty, slavery and extermination: “There was no time for those animals suffering in labs and fur farms and factory farms to wait to exhaust more legal means. I could see already that people for many, many years had chosen that path and although it is effective at times, it was not bringing about results quick enough for those animals now suffering. So I became involved in direct action with the Animal Liberation Front.
UntitledFrom the tribal conflict to thermo-nuclear war.
A documentary on the eclectic and inventive survival strategies of residents of one of the most impoverished and marginalized areas of the United States, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The fictions-performances inside and outside of Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores often end with the Reverend being arrested. He calls it stepping into somebody's imagined box. The police call it illegal trespassing. The Reverend claims that social change always begins with civil disobedience and includes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements.
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