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              Third Known Nest
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S008-SS005-0003 · Item · 1999
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Third Known Nest brings together Kalin's witty and poignant "video diary" pieces with new interstitial material that thematically links the works with cogent literary quotes. Merging elements of music video, text, and intimate Super 8 "home movies," Kalin has created a personal and cultural chronicle of the 1990s. Tracing a trajectory that moves from stylized AIDS activist spots to alternative music videos and poems of love and loss, Kalin' video journal culminates in a performative self-portrait.

              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S002-SS003-0003 · Item · 1989
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              It is an erotic response on the Helms Law, the American government's refusal to subsidize the prevention and awareness on AIDS. Kalin writes: "They are lost to vision altogether acts as erotic retaliation on legislation such as the Supreme Court sodomy ruling — declaring the private bedroom as open target for the State — or the Helms Amendment — the U.S government's refusal to fund explicit AIDS prevention information for gay men, lesbians and IV drug users. An attempt to reclaim eroticism and to address the contradictions of sexuality and romance in the face of a monolithic and culturally compulsory heterosexuality, They are lost to vision altogether finds queer history where it can and invents the rest." 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.

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              Then There Were None
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0077 · Item · 1995
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              More than half a million native Hawaiians were living in the islands at the time of European contact in 1778. Within 50 years, that population was halved as Western diseases claimed thousands of lives. A litany of events followed: American missionaries preached unfamiliar ideas and customs; sugarcane and pineapple plantations absorbed individual farmlands; waves of immigrant workers arrived, making Hawaiians a minority in their own land; and WWII brought a lasting military presence. University of Hawaii sociologists estimate that the extinction of full-blooded Hawaiians could come within the next 45 years. To millions of travellers the world over, Hawaii is an alluring picture-postcard paradise. But to its Native Hawaiian people, nothing could be further from the truth.

              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S007-SS001-0013 · Item · 1999
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Various permutations and combinations of Abraham Zapruder's 8mm home movie footage of the assassination of JFK. My work is intended as an investigation of the footage as a visual, experiential, and cultural document. In the United States this footage is both notorious and invisible; seldom actually seen, it is very well known; when seen, it remains opaque. This work is intended to add a level of "transparency" to the original. It is set to Jajouka music in order to bring to the foreground the ritual aspects of this visual, mechanical, and media historical event. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0058 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              An invaluable record of the crimes committed by the United States and its “Coalition of the Willing” partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Iraqi witnesses and experts in international law, human rights, science, culture and history testified for three days before an international “Jury of Conscience” that included Arundhati Roy (India), Eve Ensler (U.S.), Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia), Dumisa Nsebeza (South Africa), Francois Houtart (Belgium), and Taty Almeida (Argentina).

              The World Tribunal on Iraq
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0057 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              An invaluable record of the crimes committed by the United States and its “Coalition of the Willing” partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Iraqi witnesses and experts in international law, human rights, science, culture and history testified for three days before an international “Jury of Conscience” that included Arundhati Roy (India), Eve Ensler (U.S.), Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia), Dumisa Nsebeza (South Africa), Francois Houtart (Belgium), and Taty Almeida (Argentina).

              The Weather Underground
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS006-0002 · Item · 2007
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              “Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of war. Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol of American justice”. - Former Underground Member Bernardine Dohrn. Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. Fueled by outrage over the Vietnam War and racism in America, they went underground during the 1970s, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized “the real violence” that the U.S. government and capitalist power were wreaking throughout the world. From pitched battles with police on Chicago's city streets, to bombing the U.S. Capitol building, to breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison, this carefully organized clandestine network attempted to incite a national revolution, while successfully evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history.

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              The Wash
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0065 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              “The Wash is a portrait of the River Wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live. We shot The Wash on Super8 film and then finished it on video. It is a collaboration between us, describing the ways the river is used, and the people who use it, ourselves included. It charts the way this land has changed since they began developing Newhall and the surrounding community of Valencia for housing, a development that is expected to bring over 250,000 more people into the area by the year 2015.”