Röyksopp,
2008, 3 min 33 sec
“What Else Is There?” is the third single from the Norwegian duo Röyksopp’s second album The Understanding. It features the vocals of Karin Dreijer from the Swedish electronica duo The Knife. The album was released in the UK with the help of Astralwerks.
Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, USA
1992, 9 min 04 sec
Summary of Chomsky’s analyses on how the corporate media functions. Excerpt from the documentary “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media” (1992)
Vandana Shiva, Organicology Conference Portland, USA
2009, 59 min 54 sec
Scientist, activist and author, Vandana Shiva, talks about the importance of saving non-GMO seeds and her concept of Earth Democracy. “The desire to save seeds comes from an ethical urge to defend life’s evolution”, says Vandana Shiva. “In India 150.000 farmers have committed suicide in areas where they have to buy seeds every year from Monsanto at a very high cost.” In response to this, community seed banks were created to collect, multiply and distribute seeds according to the farmers’ needs.
She explains what Earth Democracy entails: “It’s a democracy that is related to the earth. It’s practiced best close to the earth, where you live, in your everyday life. We are first citizens of the earth.”
Charlie Chaplin, A King in New York, USA
1957, 3 min 58 sec
Rupert, a young editor of a school magazine, gets interrupted while reading Kalr Marx’ work to be introduced to ‘Your Majesty’. He seizes the opportunity to explain passionately why he dislikes all forms of government,since its power is antagonizing the people.
According to Rupert, politics are rules imposed upon the people.The importance of a passport and the restriction of freedom when lack of it is infuriating to the young man.
Since he believes there is no chance to compete with monoplized businesses he concludes that monopoly is the menace of free enterprise.Hence, the monopoly of power is a menace to freedom.
Johan Grimonprez, Belgium
story written & narrated by Eduardo Galeano
fragment from Shadow World
2016, 1 min 16 sec
In 1980 an extraordinary demonstration hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Under the military dictatorship, a court had outlawed kisses that undermined public morals. The ruling by Judge Manuel Moralles, which punished such kisses with jail terms, described them this way: “some kisses are libidinous and therefore obscene, like a kiss on the neck, on the private parts, etc., and like the cinematographic kiss in which the labial mucosa come together in an unsophismable expansion of sensuality.” The city responded by becoming one huge kissodrome. Never had people kissed so much. Prohibition sparked desire and many were those who out of simple curiosity wanted a taste of the unsophismable kiss.
Richard Stallman, RT LIVE, Washington, USA
2013, 5 min 5 sec
Online currency Bitcoin has now almost overtaken gold in value. A single bitcoin currently trades for one thousand two hundred dollars – just shy of an ounce of bullion. RT spoke to Dr Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation about the currency. One advantage, he says, is freedom to spend your money any way you like without the approval of the government or the permission of a payment company, which provides us with a freedom we haven’t been able to experience before, even though at this point, we are not able to buy bitcoins in an anonymous way.
Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica, Romania
1992, 1 min 28 sec
History takes place before your eyes in Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica’s fascinating film covering the 1989 fall of the Ceaucescu regime in Romania. A radical, media-based chronology that condenses 125 hours of footage, Videograms of a Revolution carefully mediates perspective as it presents a picture of political turmoil as revealing and chilling as Eisenstein’s October. A recorded spectacle of dramatic, operatic and grotesque character.
Stuart Hameroff, Arizona, USA
1975, 1 hour 1 min 27 sec
Dr. Stuart Hameroff is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. Together with British quantum physicist Sir Roger Penrose, Hameroff is the co-author of the controversial Orch OR model of consciousness.
During this 1 hour conversation with Hameroff a variety of interesting topics are covered, centered around the concept of consciousness.
PBS News Hour, USA
2015, 7 min 2 sec
“Language Matters,” a PBS documentary, explores how linguistic heritage is intrinsically intertwined with local knowledge and concepts as well as sustainable visions. But these languages and their ancestral knowledge are now at risk of being lost forever around the world. Poet Bob Holman elucidates his fight to revive languages inherently part of our common world legacy.
David Lynch, Chris Johnson, USA & Livraria Cultura, Brasil
2007 & 2008
This is a clip out of an interview shot at the AFI Dallas Film Festival. Edited on location by Confidence Bay, mobile edit suite.