In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Damos vueltas de noche y el fuego nos consume). (Francia / France) Guy Debord, 1978 A Latin palindrome "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" (said to describe the behavior of moths) is the title chose by Debord for one of his chief cinematic oeuvres. A critique of modernization that begins with shots of a movie theatre where mesmerized viewers fix their mute, contented gaze on the light reflected on the silver screen.
Ici et Ailleurs (Aquí y en otro lugar). (Francia / France) Jean Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, 1974 A 1976 film by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, made using footage from Jusqu'à la victoire, an unfinished, never publicly realeased 1970 pro-Palestinian film made by Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin as part of the Dziga Vertov Group. Ici et Ailleurs marks the beginning of the period when Godard moved away from militant politics, and provides a disillusioned critique of the Dziga Vertov Group's ideas and methods.
Loin du Vietnam (Lejos de Vietnam). (Francia / France) , 1967 An agit-prop, anti-war documentary film directed by Joris Ivens, W. Klein, C. Lelouch, A. Varda, J. L. Godard, C. Marker and A. Resnais. Divided into 11 chapters (plus an introduction and an epilogue), this collective manifesto seeks to counter US media and government propaganda on Vietnam, but also offers a reflection on the global impact of war, indifference to the suffering of people from other cultures, and the construction of selective memory.
Ru'a [الرؤى visiones] Toni Serra-OVNI [Archivos del Observatorio] , An online project that defines itself as “an intersection between Western criticism and the Islam rhizome”, seeking “to deconstruct the media monotype imposed on Islamic realities”, and offering “a reflection on the image in its relationship with dreams and visions” and on images’ ability to project a reality.
Imago Mundi. Lisl Ponger, 2007, Austria, A mid-17th century vanitas still life painting , "The Knight’s Dream" by Spanish Baroque painter Antonio de Pereda, is the starting point for an exploration of the politics of representation and the representation of politics through different epochs, from the symbols of religious and secular power in the 17th century, to those of today’s post-colonial, neoliberal globalization, in a cinematic discourse interweaving music, dance, theatre, literature, photography and film from various eras and genres.
