LUX 28: Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s)/ Programme 2: 2 - 5 July

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 From Beirut to... those who love us, Electronic Lebanon


Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s)/ Programme 2
Showing continuously Wednesday 2nd July - Saturday 5 July 12 - 6pm ,  
free admission
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ www.lux28.org.uk

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Weekly Screening Programme
Programme 2

Lions
, Nahed Awwad
Palestine, 2002, 10'

'This film takes you to the city of Ramallah during the 2nd-and not  
last invasion by Israeli troops in April 2002. It is what I saw,  
heard and experienced starting from neighborhood moving to the city  
destruction.'

Meen Erhabe (Who is the Terrorist?)
, Jackie Salloum
Palestine / USA, 2003, 5'

Video footage questioning who is the terrorist and why. Reflection on  
the daily conflict in the occupied territories accompanied by Rap  
music produced by youth under occupation and inspired by the Intifada.

 From Beirut to... those who love us, Electronic Lebanon

Lebanon, 2006, 5'

Video letters from Beirut to the World. July 21, 2006. Calling  
outside Lebanon, the bombings in 2006

July Trip
, Wael Noureddine

Lebanon / France, 2006, 35'

Beirut, July 2006. Israeli bombings strike the city. While Beirut is  
still on fire, the filmmaker starts a journey across his native land.  
The film is not a documentary - although the images are burningly  
real - but an essay. Using two complementary techniques, 16 mm film  
and HDV, the artist questions the deep foundations of the documentary  
genre. The eye of the cameras goes through a country in a state of  
terror, it records the immediate effects of war when it touches  
civilians.

June 26 - July 26, Wednesday to Saturday 12-6
Archivos OVNI
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Founded in 1993 Archivos OVNI (Observatorio de Video No Identificado)  
is an independent artists’ video archive project based at the Centre  
for Contemporary Art in Barcelona. The aim of the archive is to  
collect and disseminate works that challenge prevailing western mass  
media representations of the world and give a voice to unrepresented  
people and cultures. The archives are unique in that they cut across  
moving image disciplines: from video art to independent documentary  
and mass media archaeology, they draw together extraordinarily  
diverse works which share a commitment to personal expression.

The Archives are the core of the OVNI project, but rather than being  
a static resource they are conceived of as part of a dialogue which  
aims to encourage an ongoing critique of contemporary culture and  
society. This dialogue is realised through the collection and  
dissemination of works; through the screenings and debates which OVNI  
hosts; through the collaboration with other agencies and the staging  
of aspects of the project across the world in places as disparate as  
New York, Amman, Casablanca, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Bogotá, Buenos  
Aires, Mexico, Tijuana, Marseille, Paris, Stuttgart, Graz, Brescia,  
Lecce, Madrid, Lugano, Valencia and Seoul.

Archivos OVNI presents the project for the first time in London with  
a specially curated selection of works presented at LUX 28 in the  
form of a video library and weekly screening programme. The selection  
particularly focuses on questions of exodus and resistance, two  
principal themes within the archive, and the tensions that draw a  
line from subjective experience to specific social and political  
realities.

In addition to the screening programme over 70 works are available to  
view in the video library, including Xavi Hurtado’s Nawpa [0.1]  
which explores indigenous resistance to western interests in Ecuador,  
Calle y Media Cooperativa’s Abajo el COLONialismo, a documentary  
about anti-colonialism in Venezuela, Nahed Awwad’s Lions, an eye  
witness testimony of the invasion of Ramallah, Dallia Ennadre’s El  
Batalett which follows a group of Moroccan women in Casablanca’s old  
Medina and Electronic Lebanon’s From Beirut to… those who love us,  
a series of broadcasts from Beirut during the 2006 bombings.

a full list of the films available to view can be downloaded at  
www.lux28.org.uk





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