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              Serpent Mother
              Serpent Mother
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0098 · Item · 1985
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Serpent Mother is about devotion to the Goddess of Snakes and the importance of divine female power in West Bengal Indian life. The film's focus is the Jhapan Festival, the great celebration of snakes. It shows the festival preparations, the role of traditional arts and crafts in the worship of the Goddess, devotional singing, and a demonstration of ritual action.

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              She Puppet
              She Puppet
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S008-SS003-0005 · Item · 2001
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              "Is an homage to and commentary on the female action adventure game Tomb Raider and it's busty virtual superstar Lara Croft. I make Lara explore the game environment at the edges of the programming world created for her. The limited inventory of Lara's gestures and the militaristic scenarios of the game are considered from a feminist perspective in analysing the symbolic feminine and the popular culture that has sprung up around Lara Croft". Quotations are from three authors . Fernando Pessoa, Joanna Russ, Sun Ra.
              Sheik Attack
              Sheik Attack
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S007-SS002-0008 · Item · 1999
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Songs and images taken from video games are used as a parable to approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Eddo Stern bases his work on the use of "bugs" or errors in the computer games he uses to construct his work.

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              Short Cut To Nirvana
              Short Cut To Nirvana
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0078 · Item · 2004
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Short Cut to Nirvana is a film about the Kumbh Mela, the biggest gathering of people in the history of humanity – although few in the West have ever heard of it. More than 70 million pilgrims attend this spiritual festival which has been held every twelve years near Allahabad, India, for over two millennia.

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              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.)
              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.