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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A new episode of the author's personal video diary. Every day life seen through psychological problems. Available online until December 20th, 2020. Courtesy of Harvard Film Archive.
UntitledAbout Home shows what happen when people live more than 60 years in a refugee camp. The film goes inside the intimate life of a Palestinan familiy to show their thoughts, desires and contradictions after more than half a century living in Lebanon as a refugees. About Home explores the meaning of living in stand-by in an atmosphere of hate, violence and arms. Small clockwork bombs inhabiting a compulsive country.
Abu Dhabi Style shows us some glimpses of the city, and introduces us to the students' lives at the college and during their spare time. But we also learn about traditions and the importance of religion in the lives of these modern young men.
UntitledA Journey in Afghanistan. After two decades of chaos and destruction, a country searches for its identity. Eight places. A cinematic encounter with people and their realities. A nightclub, a school, a hospital, a taxi – the people there talk about daily life in Afghanistan beyond the war and the Taliban. The director observes people and incidents on his journey, starting in the northern province and eventually reaching the capital Kabul. The result is a mosaic, presented as episodes leaving out West-European commentary.
UntitledThrough the story of Bir'im, a destroyed Palestinian village, we encounter Nahida and two other women from the kibbutz built on its land. The trio's moving story focuses on a struggle for the return of the villagers to their homeland, a central issue in the Palestinian experience.
UntitledA family’s place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There’s no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed.
UntitledJosé, Victoria and Miquel are three of the people who have lived on the streets, or are very close to doing so. Antibiografies is a documentary about the lives of Barcelona’s homeless people, a hidden world that is less visible but no less real or alive than any other. The protagonists talk about how they survive, their relationships, and the occupation of public space. A vision of tod ay’s society from a marginal, frontier perspective.
A video essay of life in Baghdad before the invasion and occupation. Men dance, women draw and Sufis sing as they await the coming of another war. Notes, gifts, promises, paintings, trash, and other ephemera from the city which is now hardly a city.
UntitledArgentina: the old world of lords and maids.