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Videograms of a Revolution

FAROCKI and UJICA's "Videograms" shows the Romanian revolution of December 1989 in Bucharest in a new, media-based form of historiography. Demonstrators occupied the Bucharest television station and broadcast continuously for 120 hours, thereby establishing the television studio as a new historical site. Between December 21, 1989 (the day of Ceaucescu's last speech) and December 26, 1989 (the first televised summary of his trail), the cameras recorded events at the most important locations in Bucharest, almost without exception.

We Speak Against Injustice

"We Speak Against Injustice" follows the Zapatista caravan of March, 2002, which visited 11 cities on the way to Mexico City, where the EZLN along with other indigenous groups presented the San Andres Accords to the Mexican Congress. We see what has happened since the Mexican Congress changed the San Andres Accords against the will of indigenous people throughout Mexico and ratified them into the constitution. The second half of the video documents the upsurge in paramilitary violence in Chiapas that began in August 2002.

Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News

In the decade since an amateur videographer in Los Angeles recorded the Rodney KING beating, the use of handicams to record events around the world has skyrocketed. The film explores the political and social consequences of handicams and new communications technologies being used by human rights activists, war crimes investigators, rightwing hate groups and ordinary citizens. Does the presence of a video camera help save lives or rather increase the danger to those being threatened? What will be the impact of this proliferation of personal video cameras? It may be for us to answer them.

Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela in 1998, 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'etat.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

"Manufacturing Consent" explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist and radical philosopher, Noam CHOMSKY. As a boy during the Depression, he worked his uncle's newsstand in Manhattan. Today, he is an outspoken critic of the press. "Manufacturing Consent" focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by force are subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control.

Live From Palestine

After the destruction of "The Voice of Palestine" transmitter, and later exploded all of "Voice of Palestine" buildings in February 2002, one of the first Middle-East radio stations, build in 1934, doesn't exist anymore. The film deals with the issue of Palestinian media in the first year of the second Intifada through what they transmit on the air to their listeners, and through what happens behind the scenes at the station, trying to observe closely how the Palestinian reality in this condition.

1/0 Guerre Chronique

The left screen shows the daily life of Baghdad residents, while the right screen shows Bush preparing for a televised address. War is thus opens up before the eyes of the masses. The news clips on the screens are simply released in a cold and detached manner, but through careful editing and slow pace, the images allow us to see the significance hiding behind them. The film premiered on August 19, 2003 in France to the accompaniment of live musicians. The perfect union of sound and imagery made for a captivating show.

The Rage of Legless Horses

In the state psychiatric hospital El Peral, located in the beltway of Santiago de Chile, a group of psychiatric patients create an internal radio station named "La Estaci?n del Para?so" (The Paradise's station") to speak up their voices which until then have been usually silenced, here their opinions on important and serious issues such as current internal affaires, the condition they live in and most importantly their lives. Ultimately seeking to be integrated into society.

Direct - Indirect I,II,III

The first and second films accentuate the body in a setting of war, re-organizing TV clips of war coverage, digitally reconstructing images, manipulating time and reality until human nature, concealed behind the imagery, reemerges. The third film is dedicated to mothers. First we see a child engulfed in flam, pleading for help, then enter into an apocalyptic series of fires and catastrophes. The director repeatedly explores the oppression, allure and latent meaning contained in images of violence and transformation.

Caracoles: New Paths of Resistance

Produced in August 2003 in the communities of Oventik and Morelia by 18 Zapatista video makers, "Caracoles" is a celebration of the death of the Aguascalientes and the birth of the Caracoles and the Good Government Assemblies. Various members of the Zapatista leadership discuss how these changes will affect internal political and economic processes, gender relations, and their relationship to international civil society.