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              22 Archival description results for Venezuela

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS002-0007 · Item · 2008
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Kim, Harold, Miguel Duque, Ratablanca y Cross-T “We say there is social war when everything gets reduced to a plan. All of the possibilities for creation and existence that all of us want for ourselves, what we call life, require the availability of resource this purpose. Symbolic, imaginary, actual, physical resources. If this doesn't happen, then what is democracy? Democracy is a potentiality. Is the urge towards creativity and complexity, which exists as potential in every life, fulfilled or is it not fulfilled' If it is not fulfilled, then what is democracy? The way we see it, democracy means that those who produce the world can produce it entirely. Not that some produce it, and the rest obey”. Colectivo Situaciones, Argentina.

              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0029 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              A journey through Beirut's devastated neighbourhoods and some villages in southern Lebanon. The ordinary stories of ordinary people. Women, children and men face the challenge of remaking their lives in the midst of the devastation. 34 days of bombing by Israel have left indelible marks. Hundreds of families have lost their loved ones, a million displaced people return to their devastated houses. The Lebanese people wake from the nightmare full of rage and sorrow. Bombs are heavy, peace has no weight.

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              La Vega Resiste
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS005-0004 · Item · 2004
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Through images, testimonies, press articles, music, demonstrations and traditions, the community of La Vega, an established neighbourhood of the capital, narrates the story of its progress, expansion and consolidation. The foundations for their consistent and self-managed organisation can be found in a deep sense of belonging marked by the manifestations of its indigenous, black and revolutionary roots.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS002-0005 · Item · 2003
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Chavez, elected president of Venezuela in 1998, is a colourful, unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. they were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man the wall street journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington?s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."

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              Fuegos bajo el agua
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0020 · Item · 2009
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              This film aims to reinstate the political experience of organisation and struggle of the Venezuelan people by exploring the history of a barrio in Caracas: 23 de Enero. From the moment it was founded, the popular organisations of 23 de Enero have been major players in the political events that shaped Venezuela's history and led the country into a new kind of revolutionary process with Hugo Chávez's coming into power.

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              Comuna en Construction
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-3208 · Item · 2010
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Comuna en construcción (Comuna Under Construction) “Influential media's fixation on a charismatic personality such as Hugo Chávez unfortunately means that the countless interesting processes taking place in the country remain hidden.” Oliver Ressler's programmatic remark on his previous film 5 Factories – Worker Control in Venezuela (2006) also applies to his third work produced in Venezuela in collaboration with Dario Azzellini. Comuna Under Construction reveals what the “Socialism of the twenty-first century” propagated by Chávez might mean in practice. In the mode of a simple listening and looking at various gatherings in the poor neighborhoods of the capital Caracas, and also in rural areas, the film accompanies—without comment or interview—a stage of a fascinating process that has taken hold of large segments of the country. Tens of thousands consejos comunales (communal councils) have been founded in Venezuela in the spirit of the new constitution, which greatly emphasizes political participation. These basis democracy neighborhood gatherings attend to housing refurbishment, health care, and garbage pick-up routes, with financial support of the state, and to a great extent do so independently of the local administration. They can, however, also found communal enterprises and decide on the priorities in the city district. Bit by bit, the film uncovers the phenomenon, which might appear from an affluence-accustomed perspective as a compensatory one in the face of a lacking or corrupt administration, as a prospering parallel structure ultimately intended to entirely replace the old state: several councils can join to a commune, several communes, in the end, to a communal town. Comuna Under Construction puts forth for discussion the practice of a—by no means conflict-free—revolution that is not exhausted in the takeover of power, but rather, is defined as a complex construction process leading to the goal of self government of the citizens.