Radical media, politics and culture.

Observatori de Video No Identificat, "OVNI 2005," Barcelona, Jan. 25-30, 2005

"OVNI 2005"

Axius de l’Observatori / The Observatory Archives

[OVNI - Observatori de Vídeo No Identificat] [UFO - Unknown Frame Observatory]

"OVNI 2005" will be held at the CCCB from the 25th to the 30th of January 2005, with screenings of some of the works recently added to the Archives. The entire Archives collection will also be available for public consultation during OVNI 2005.


The Observatory Archives are intentional in nature and organised around specific themes, bringing together material that supports a critique of contemporary culture through different approaches such as video art, independent documentary and mass media archaeology.Although the archives include a whole constellation of very different works, they all share a commitment to free expression, and reflect upon our `individual and collective fears and pleasures. Together, they create a multifaceted vision, thousands of small eyes probing and exploring our world and proclaiming other possible worlds. A discourse that values heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity; an antidote to the cloning and repetition of corporate mass media.


In the 10 years of OVNI’s existence, the Observatory Archives have grown to include more than 700 works and documents [DVD format, with Spanish subtitles].

The Observatory Archives thematic areas include:

Identity and MassMedia.

Globalisation and Resistance: Argentina, Palestine, South Africa, Iraq, Chechnya, the Anti-Globalisation movement, and the Landless People’s movement.

Heterodoxies and Autonomous Zones (TAZ) different ways of thinking, living, communities….other worlds far from the “there is no alternative” single ideology.

The Cathode Ray - Media Guerrillas - television, media critique, intercepted information and counter information, media attacks, found footage, media archaeology, media deconstruction, scientific archaeology…

Lost in Babylon: the adventures and misadventures of survivors of the Empire.

Colonial Tourism - the phenomenon of tourism (image plundering, hijacked territories, tele-transportation, gift of ubiquity, theme parks….)

Borders - Migration, cross-cultures, deculturalisation, nomadism and globalisation. The militarisation of borders. Illegal in paradise. Europe-Maghreb, USA-Latin America.

Work and ideology - Work and capital, politics and reality, imagery of progress, the taboo of representing workplaces.

September 11th, 2001- works on video or digital format that reflect on the events, including unedited material, media coverage and artistic projects.

Babylon Archives - media archaeology, documents that reflect some of the most aggressive and intolerant values of contemporary western culture and its sources: educational and business documentaries, early television advertising, TV-evangelists, marketing, promotional travel videos, castings for advertising, etc.

Death - Culture and experience. Rituals. Audiovisual projects and found footage.

Trance rituals - Religion - edited videos, camera tapes or found footage that document trance rituals (dikr, haddras, Santeria, voodoo , preachers,...etc).

Islam - View of the Other - other images, other information about a culture that has been almost exclusively represented through western eyes.

Cities - Portraits of cities - scenes from daily life, home, the workplace, memories...

Machine Land - Deconstruction of technology, machine conspiracy, digital euphoria, corporate vandalism.

Dream Archives - Stories of dreams, the imaginary of an age, desires, conflicts, madness, pleasures...etc.

Inner Experience and other mystic visions..

Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, Eduard Said, Hakim Bey, George Bataille, William Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze - Works directly or indirectly related to the work of these authors.

The works can be consulted on DVD or CD-ROM format at OVNI / CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) by previous appointment - FREE OF CHARGE

To arrange a visit, please contact:

ovni-archives@desorg.org

Tel. 93 306 4100

C/ Montealegre 5, 08001 Barcelona

www.desorg.org

DEADLINE for submitting new works:

From now to August 15th, 2004

OVNI agrees to:

1.- Pay 200 € to include a copy of the work in the Archives, and make it available for individual viewing by professionals and members of the public. This amount will also include the rights to two public screenings for the purposes of presenting the work. [OVNI screenings and access to the Observatory Archives are always FREE OF CHARGE].

2.- Pay 90 € per screening for any subsequent screenings, and always notify the author in advance.

3.- Return unselected videos after OVNI 2005, with return postage costs covered by us [VHS tapes and selected works will not be returned].

OVNI on the road. Various cities and institutions have hosted OVNI as a whole or specific thematic programs, including:
New York, Casablanca, Marseille, Kraljevo, Montpellier, Rabat, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Sta. Cruz de Tenerife, Vitoria, Nîmes, Castellón, ...

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There is no submission fee. Notifications will not be sent to acknowledge works received.

Formats: BETACAM SP (PAL)- Mini DV ( Pal )- DVD ( Pal) - CD ROM
Preview VHS (NTSC and Pal): will not be returned.

Please use a separate entry form for each work.
Include photographs, slides, a synopsis, CD-ROMS and texts for press purposes.

Author

name:

residential address:

city:

postal code:

province:

Country:

Ph.:

fax:

nationality :

e-mail :

web site:

Work

title:

screening format :

duration:

year:

country produced:

subject matter:

web:

synopsis:

I agree to: (mark with an “x”)

--- Allow fragments (máx.20’’) of the work to be broadcast on television for publicity purposes in relation to promoting OVNI 2005 and the Archives.

--- Allow the work to be included in any thematic or artist-based touring OVNI presentations that may arise, and be paid 90 € per screening.

--- Include information about my work in the OVNI catalogue and database, including a still image from the work in jpeg format.

Signed:



Send to:

OVNI 2005- Arxius OVNI

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Montalegre, 5
08001 Barcelona. Spain

Ph. (34) 93 306 41 00

Fax. (34) 93 302 23 24

e-mail: ovni@desorg.org // ovni-archives@desorg.org //

ovni@cccb.org


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