An animated lecture by Prof David Harvey (also see Wikipedia) for RSA.org about the crises of capitalism and the growing need for a new responsible and just social order.
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Be Happy, It's An Order - Mutlu Ol, Bu Bir Emirdir
A brilliant Turkish short film about government efforts to control folk music. Directed by Sinan Çetin.
Old places new faces: A history of Home (2010)
Renovation work on the much-anticipated Home for Cooperation in the divided island of Cyprus has begun. The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research has spent the last three years raising funds and acquiring all the necessary permits to buy and renovate the dilapidated building sitting in the heart of the buffer zone in Cyprus split capital, Nicosia.
The Home will be the first intercommunal building dealing with history education. The Cyprus Community Media Centre takes a look at the history of the place and the hopes for the future.
The Home will be the first intercommunal building dealing with history education. The Cyprus Community Media Centre takes a look at the history of the place and the hopes for the future.
Money as Debt
Official Website
Money as Debt (for greek subtitles go here):
Money as Debt II: Promises Unleashed
The Last Farm
The Last Farm (Síðasti bærinn) is a 2005 Icelandic short film. It was directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, and stars Icelandic actor Jón Sigurbjörnsson. Kjartan Sveinsson, the keyboardist for Sigur Rós, composed the music. Excellent!
Official Website
Check the comments to listen to the soundtrack.
Watch:
Official Website
Check the comments to listen to the soundtrack.
Watch:
Walled Horizons
Twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down, there are many places in the world where walls and barriers are still standing (excellent report by the BBC).
Today's post is a short film/documentary about the shameful wall built by the Israeli government at the West Bank, which created a huge prison in Gaza. Walled Horizons is narrated by and features Roger Waters, who visits the Wall in the Palestinian territories and comments on his observations as a musician and a songwriter who has written on walls. The film explores how Palestinians in urban and rural areas have been impacted by the Walls construction since the International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion in 2004, which declared the Wall's route in the West Bank illegal. Several senior Israeli security officials are interviewed in the film, two of whom were directly responsible for planning the Wall route and who explain the Israeli position for constructing it. The film was made by the United Nations Jerusalem.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Today's post is a short film/documentary about the shameful wall built by the Israeli government at the West Bank, which created a huge prison in Gaza. Walled Horizons is narrated by and features Roger Waters, who visits the Wall in the Palestinian territories and comments on his observations as a musician and a songwriter who has written on walls. The film explores how Palestinians in urban and rural areas have been impacted by the Walls construction since the International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion in 2004, which declared the Wall's route in the West Bank illegal. Several senior Israeli security officials are interviewed in the film, two of whom were directly responsible for planning the Wall route and who explain the Israeli position for constructing it. The film was made by the United Nations Jerusalem.
Part 1:
Part 2:
The Cat Piano
In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city.The Cat Piano is a brilliant animated short film directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson. It features the voice of Nick Cave narrating a poem written by Eddie White. The poem blends Jack Kerouac inspired beat poetry with the romantic and haunting poems of Edgar Allen Poe.
Everyone must watch this one! Absolutely brilliant!
More info:
The Cat Piano official website
The poem
Wikipedia
The People's Republic of Animation (production)
IMDb
Watch:
Gaza, We Are Coming
In August 2008, two small Greek fishing boats with 44 activists from 17 different countries broke the naval siege, illegally laid by the state of Israel on Gaza, for the first time after 41 years. The mission was the brainchild of the Free Gaza Movement, founded in 2006, who realised that the only realistic way of breaking through the blockade was via the sea. Gaza, We Are Coming, is a special documentary that charts the history of the project to break the blockade of Gaza by sea.The film was directed by filmmakers Yorgos Avgeropoulos and Yiannis Karipidis and produced by Small Planet. Full list of credits here.
More info:
The Free Gaza Movement (Wikipedia)
Small Planet documentary production company (YouTube)
Al Jazeera English
TVXS.gr (Greek)
Watch:
You are a Terrorist (Du bist Terrorist)
"You are a terrorist" is a satirical interpretation of two official German social-marketing-campaigns. Whereas "Du bist Deutschland" (You are Germany) was promoting the national consciousness and a child-friendly Germany, "You are a terrorist" is the answer to todays politics in Germany.
Collapse Under The Empire - Captured Moments
The first video from the upcoming album "Find a Place to be Safe", which will be released in autumn.
Check out their excellent debut here.
Check out their excellent debut here.
Howard Zinn - interview
A great interview at the Greek website TVXS.gr. He talks about different issues: war, Barack Obama, social movements and his personal experiences.
More Info:
HowardZinn.org
Wikipedia
War
Barack Obama
Social Movements
Personal Experiences
More Info:
HowardZinn.org
Wikipedia
War
Barack Obama
Social Movements
Personal Experiences
Sex crimes and the Vatican
Earlier this week, a report about child abuse in Irish Catholic church was published. The report, nine years in the making and covering a period of six decades, found thousands of boys and girls were abused by priests and nuns. Church leaders knew about the sexual abuses.More info@BBC: [1], [2], [3], [4]
Having this in mind, today I post a great documentary entitled "Sex crimes and the Vatican", by Colm O'Gorman, who was raped by a Catholic priest in Ireland when he was 14 years old. It was filmed for the BBC Panorama Documentary Series and shows that the Vatican used a secret document, Crimen sollicitationis, to silence allegations of sexual abuse by priests and that it was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became the Pope.
More info:
BBC Panorama
Wikipedia
TVXS (Greek subtitles)
Μαθήματα Κυπριακής Ιστορίας - Lessons in Cypriot History
Lessons in Cypriot history - Mathimata kipriakis istorias from slowriot on Vimeo.
Οι Νέοι Φακελοι (The New Files)
No English subtitles. Sorry!
Little Red Riding Hood
A school assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, inspired by Röyksopp's "Remind Me". Awesome!
Remind Me:
Little Red Riding Hood:
Remind Me:
Little Red Riding Hood:
Cypriot police officers acquitted
The Criminal Court in Nicosia, Cyprus, decided today, on the case of two students beaten by 10 police officers the morning of 20th of December 2005, not to accept as evidence material the above video taken by citizen on the grounds that it "denies the right to a fair trial to defendants police officers". Therefore, the police officers in the video are innocent! Outrageous!
What's the next step? The Greek riots answered this a couple of months ago:
The Story Of Stuff
Extraction -Production - Distribution - Consumption - Disposal
Very nice interactive official website (and better video quality)
Download (.mov, 50MB)
Closed Zone
A short animation about Israel's closure of Gaza by Yoni Goodman (director of animation for Waltz with Bashir) produced by the Israeli human rights group Gisha.
Behind the scenes
Official Website
Behind the scenes
Official Website
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