United States of America
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Super Barrio is an heir to the Mexican popular heroes who defend the rights of the weakest.
UntitledAfter WWII, Americans teenagers discovered leisure . They no longer had to work to support their families, and they had almost nothing to do. It seems like a cliche now, but bored teenagers were a completely new phenomenon, young minds eager to explore the limits of perception and pleasurable experience. A wave of corporate and government educational videos, responded to the situation by presenting a world of fears and hidden dangers. They were designing the personalities of the future, standardized citizens, with a new set of behaviors and new fears and taboos.
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Lost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
Los Sures is the name of a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Recorded in 1991 and published in 2008, this video is not so much a portrait of the neighborhood or a memory of it, but a journey of initiation through different interior landscapes that are reflected in the urban wilderness in the evocation of death and loneliness, but also in contemplation and celebration of life.
Document on the transnational and about those who succumb on the border of dreams. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
A free interpretation of the classic epic The Lord of the Rings, which becomes "The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade". In boardrooms around the world, corporations are hatching a master plan to gain control of everything. “Free trade” would allow them to exploit nature and control all forms of life.
UntitledA dream of searching for magic mushrooms filmed in San Pedro Tenancingo, Mexico and San Francisco.
Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs. (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.) 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.