The US military's progress report on Iraq is in and it's mostly bad news. But there is one unexpected success story: in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, a group of tribes has joined with the Americans to fight Al Qaeda. The Americans report that attacks on US forces have dropped dramatically and claim that life is beginning to return to normal. The leader and symbol of this movement that the Americans claim is rapidly securing Anbar province is a sheik named Sattar Abu Risha. But is Abu Risha all he claims to be?.

The meta-fiction is as follows: in a second Mexican/American war, Mexico wins. The USA collapses and the former states fragment into a myriad of micro-republics controlled by a multiracial junta led by the Prime Minister Gran Vato. Spanglish is the official language. The anglo militias desperately attempt to re-establish the old order. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

This film, shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travels through the DRC to understand what is happening and why.

This video of DeeDee Halleck is a look at the american media representation of Latin America. Since the early twentieth century in the U.S., media have promoted stereotypes of Latin America to justify the concept of dominance and leadership throughout the hemisphere. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

A video in three parts, reversed soundtracks and classic sequences of Hitchcock films. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

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