Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s)/ Programme 4/LUX 28

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Last Night Dikr, Abu Ali (2005)


Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s)/ Programme 4
Showing continuously Wednesday 16th July - Saturday 129th July,  
Wednesday 23rd - Saturday 26th July 12 - 6pm , free admission
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ www.lux28.org.uk

Texas Sunrise
USA / Spain, 1991, 20′
Lluís EscartÌn
On a dusty road, somebody talks about the ideal of freedom, the  
horizon of the American dream. Images of the desert and metallic ruins.

City of Saba
USA, 2007,9 ‘
DJ Kadagian – Four Seasons Productions.
City of saba has as a base a radical poem of Jalal-ud-din Rumi mixed  
with images of contemporary political and economical power. The  
richness as a subtle disease. This work is part of a video  
compilation designed to challenge, provoque and inspire, these films  
hit on a broad spectrum of social, political and spiritual issues  
while effortlessly cutting across traditional lines of gender, race,  
religion and ethnicity.

Last Night Dikr
Morocco, 2005, 7′
Abu Ali
VideoSeries: El Hamdulillah Tapes.
The search for water, the descent deep into the well of the heart.  
Based on a 12th Century Persian poem by Najmudin Kubra.

Mast Qalandar
Pakistan / Germany, 2005, 30′
Till Passow
Above all, Mast Qalandar (Ecstasy) is a look at heterodoxy and a  
celebration of its existence. Qalandars are a Sufi brotherhood of  
roaming dervishes who once ranged through an arch that crossed Asia,  
from Turkey to Pakistan and India. They are characterized by extreme  
mystical devotion and their revolutionary and anti-dogmatic attitudes  
within Islam, such as use of hachis and the rejection of alcohol and  
free submission to Haqq, the truth, which they see as the absence of  
limits rather than something which narrows and defines horizons.  
“Mast Qalandar” immerses us in the ritual encounter of these  
dervishes around the grave of the brotherhood’s founder in Pakistan.  
A vision of heir devotion to “the beloved” that leads them into  
trance and ecstasy, where death means simply to “draw aside a veil”.


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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