Roma Media Archive

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Roma Media Archive is an ongoing participatory media project to which the Roma and non-Roma artists, activist organisations and communities are invited to contribute various documentary and art materials that reflect the contemporary Roma situation today. The contributions vary from photography series, video documentaries, art performances, research projects and other digital materials that reflect on certain urgent issues related to specific events or to the general situation in regard various Roma communities in Europe or in other parts of the world.

This project was originally initiated by Suzana Milevska, a theorist and curator, who is based in Skopje, Macedonia. She has invited a worldwide range of participating artists, to share their archives, as testimonials of their research endeavours, in solidarity with the Roma people.

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The Movement of Ideas/Screening of all 15 films by Oliver Ressler

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“The Movement of Ideas” is the first comprehensive screening of all films by Oliver Ressler. Since 2000, Ressler has created 15 films, which all will be presented at Cinema Dynamo, a cinema space initiated by Andrea Bellini, the new director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland.

The philosopher Alain Badiou writes: “We have to overturn the old verdict that would have us believe we are living in the age of the ‘end of ideologies’. We can now see quite clearly that the only reality behind their so-called ‘end’ is ‘Save the banks’. Nothing could be more important than rediscovering the passion for ideas, or than contrasting the world as it is with a general hypothesis, with the certainty that we can create a very different order of things. We will contrast the wicked spectacle of capitalism with the real of peoples, with the lives of peoples and the movement of ideas.” (The Communist Hypothesis, 2010)

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15Mbcn.tv

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La subcomisión de audiovisuales de acampadaBCN creada a partir del 15 de mayo propone a asambleas de barrio y pueblos, y colectivos que apoyan el movimiento del 15M lo siguiente:

Ofrecemos apoyo, cobertura y difusión a todas las asambleas de Barcelona, Catalunya y Estado Español que nos sea posible. Para eso ponemos a disposición de todas aquellas asambleas y colectivos que siguen apoyando el 15M, toda la infraestructura creada por la comisión de la siguiente forma: estableciendo una comunicación directa con todas las asambleas. Cubriendo las acciones que nos sea posible y que desde las asambleas se requieran…

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Videoart by Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid

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Marina Gržinić&Aina Šmid are involved in video from 1982. They have collaborated in more than 40 video art projects, they made a short feature 16 mm film and numerous video and media installations; independently they directed several video documentaries and television productions. In 1997 they realized an interactive CD-ROM for ZKM, Karlsruhe. Grzinic and Smid in their almost 3 decades long collaborative engagement presented and exhibited their video works and video installations in more than 100 video festivals in the World and have received several major awards for their video productions.

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Deaktivacija družbeno spolnega programiranja skozi transfeministično politiko: od lezbične do transspolne pozicije in nazaj! (2. del)

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Lizzie Borden (ZDA)
Rojena v plamenih (Born in Flames), 1983, 90′

Filmsko dogajanje je postavljeno v bližnjo postapokaliptično prihodnost, ki spominja na spodnji Manhattan. Rojena v plamenih je radikalno feminističen film o seksizmu, rasizmu, razrednem zatiranju in deležu medijev pri njihovem vzdrževanju. Film prevprašuje prevladujoče kode konvencionalne naracije kakor tudi družbenega spola ter rasne in razredne pripadnosti. Ravno tako oporeka utopičnemu pojmovanju, po katerem naj bi ena sama vsesplošna družbena revolucija v celoti odpravila zatiranje…

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Deaktivacija družbeno spolnega programiranja skozi transfeministično politiko: od lezbične do transspolne pozicije in nazaj! (1. del)

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Čeprav smo že v 80-ih in 90-ih letih prejšnjega stoletja spoznali, da biološki in družbeni spol nista neko naravno stanje, ta sistem še vedno ostaja kot čvrst in stabilen okvir, ki se upira spremembam in transformacijam. Program projekcij je zasnovan kot možnost za drugačno konstrukcijo spola in spolnosti na robovih hegemonskih diskurzov heteronormativnega režima, ki nam prek de-aktivacije takšne »programacije spola« dopušča zavzeti ekscentrično pozicijo v odnosu na binarni sistem, v katerega smo vpeti.

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Workshop: Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

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The workshop will be conducted by guest lecturer Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The work that will be done as part of the workshop in the summer semester 2011 will be structured around the production of the book VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY and it will consist of readings and discussions related to the book’s contributions.

Also in relation to the workshop texts we read in the past and presently
M1 at 20.30 film program organized by Tjasa Kancler PhD student visiting us from Barcelona. Program on topics as postporn, and different strategies of resistance projects.

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web documentary: Hit-to-Kill

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The project Hit-to-Kill is set up in parallel with the dynamics of political negotiations and progress of the missile defense program, therefore it is designed as an open structure in continuous dialogue concerning the future changes and development of the related events on this issue.

The first edited version of the documentary outlines the period between the signature of the Missile Defense Agreement in Czech Republic and Poland in summer 2008 and the suspension of the 2007 European missile defense program by Obama Administration on 17th of September, 2009.

During the expedition with two women activists (with one in Poland and with the other in Czech Republic) to the “future” U.S. military bases in Redzikowo (Poland) and Brdy (Czech Republic), some of the past (Cold War) and current events are exposed through four interrelated chapters: (1)The Politics of Security, (2)The Quest for Global Dominance, (3)You. Yes, You. You Control the Information Age and (4)Translating Democracy, that emphasize political and strategic elements of the deployment of U.S. antimissile shield in Europe to question the concepts such as security, global dominance, democracy, propaganda and resistance.

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short documentary: Copycat

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Copycat is a short documentary about suicide. Through the re-enactment of some of the scenes from Roman Polanski’s film The Tenant, archive footage, film fragments and the interviews with a psychoanalyst, a psycologist, a psychiatrist, a writer and an art curator, the film focuses on the copycat effect to question media representation as well as psychological and social causes of suicide.

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