An initiatic journey Videos from an exhibition at the Centre de Cultura Comtemporània de Barcelona from March 26 to May 30, 2002 (a project by Albert Garcia-Espuche and Toni Serra). Into the innermost parts of the city of Fes.Using audiovisual recordings that illustrate some of the different anthropologic, sociologic, urbanistic and religious aspects that make up the fabric of the city. A journey that requires both objectivity (in the working method) and subjectivity (for the experience of the journey and immersion in another culture).
Vida Diaria
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The Margins of the Empire _ OVNI 2008
/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020
Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
Choque de Civilizaciones
Walkin' to New Orleans
United States of America.
From Beirut to... those who love us
United States of America,
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
Le Beurre et l'Argent du Beurre
"I'm not finished and do not know how long I have left, although I'm officially dead." In its fiftieth anniversary, Colin check out his past drug and alcohol. Four years to recover, is now furious and brilliant to think about addiction, detoxification and love in the streets. In the chaos and claustrophobia of an ice storm, Colin hopes to be reborn. His guardian angel is running late.
UntitledWe follow the director's camera into the kitchens and living rooms of a community of Moroccan women. inside the walls of their apartment in Casablanca's old Medina, the women cook, clean, take care of their families and help each other. With their hands in the dough, in the soap whilst washing the laundry, doing the house chores, in the market or at the hammam, between laughter and tears ("We are housewives, that's all. ... Our sport? House cleaning!"). These courageous women, proud of their role, talk about their miserable lives with a great sense of awareness, but without self-pity. They show a surprising vitality, curiosity for life and solidarity. These house-proud housewives may not all know how to read, but they know exactly what would improve their lives: equal rights for women and men, more money, and a better future for their children so they wouldn't have to emigrate to support the family. A sense of hope and the possibility of change radiate out of the everyday lives of these heroines ("batalett").
The urban and social structure of neighbourhoods in the medina is one of vast intricacy and complexity, being organized around a series of vital establishments for the everyday life of their inhabitants, such as the hammam or public baths, the bakery, schools and the foundouk, or caravanserai. Communal bakeries provide the heating for the public baths or hammam, fully active establishments that are very important for the cohesion of the city's social fabric. Foundouks are establishments where visiting merchants traditionally stayed and stored their products overnight. Most have now lost their original function and are adapted for other uses, such as dwellings or workshops.
Women who talk about men. Women who accidental happen to be prostitutes. The men are their lovers, clients, true love. But also a father, a son, a shopkeeper from around the corner or a passer-by. Un unexpected open and warm look behind the scenes of the bright neon light windows of the prostitute neighbourhood in Brussels. Stories about routine, but also unexpected tenderness, waiting, burning desire and intimacy.
What does your life look like when you're 17 and far from home in a giant city, working and living on building sites for your family's survival' A film about Jamil, an Afghan boy in Tehran, his desires and his day-to-day life.
UntitledThis documentary invites viewers to reflect on the needs that are generated in the West through the lives of four sisters aged three to nine who live in Isla del Sol, a place with no police force, no churches, no motors and no petrol... What is it like to live without these powers that be? The father of the four girls talks about his life in an unedited 40 minute interview accompanied by images of his daughters.
UntitledA video journal reflecting the life of a Palestinian family and a Palestinian town during one year of the intifada. Kalandia is the name of a refugee camp between Ramallah and Jerusalem, but more recently it has become the location of one of the most heavily-traveled Israeli checkpoints in the Palestinian territories. Shot between May 2001 and August 2002, Crossing Kalandia offers a unique perspective on recent events in Palestine.
UntitledConversations With the Earth is a global indigenous-led multimedia initiative that is amplifying indigenous voices in the global discourse on climate change and enhancing local capacity for action. CWE conveys local accounts of the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities, stories of the unintended consequences of imposed mitigation efforts on local livelihoods, and examples of traditional knowledge and its value in developing appropriate responses to climate change. CWE is a way of listening closely to traditional stewards of the Earth in order to formulate a viable global response to the challenges of climate change.