Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s)/ Programme 3/ LUX 28

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Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s)/ Programme 3
Showing continuously Wednesday 9th July - Saturday 12th July 12 -  
6pm , free admission
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ www.lux28.org.uk


El Batalett – Femmes de la Medina
Morocco / France, 2002, 60′
Dalila Ennadre

The heroines of the title are a group of housewives living in  
Casablanca who openly tell their stories to camera, whether in the  
hammam (the baths), at home or on the streets during the  
International Women's March of 2000. This intimate account of their  
lives exposes grinding poverty, endless work, including prostitution,  
and myriad other hardships associated with being a woman,  
particularly an Arab woman. But it's far from humourless: as one  
struggles to get through the washing that piled up during Ramadan,  
she speaks of her red-raw hands, 'When I get up, they get up,' before  
addressing them directly : 'Help me make money - then I'll buy you a  
washing machine!' Such lighter moments contrast sharply with the more  
disturbing topical tales about racist attacks on Arabs in Spain,  
difficulties facing immigrants looking for work in France and the  
continuing lack of equal rights for women under Islam.


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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