Videoplaylist

One guest
6 videos (or more)
their selection

Every month we invite a guest to present their selection of six videos that exist online and that revolve around a subject of their choice, a favourite genre, a personal take on things or an obsession. Go ahead, take a look around our archive.

Jul. 2012
Marco Canale

I spend quite a lot of time pondering how difficult it is to think and do things in this bastardised, self-complacent world. I seem to have become a bit obsessed with how we?ve limited our scope of action, under the excuse of supposed pacifism and the need to feel good about ourselves.

This playlist is a mix of worlds that I love, calls for action that challenge me, and a bit of the comic licence that still delights us in this reality.

  • ANA MENDIETA

  • TIQQUN

  • MARTXELO OTAMENDI

  • ROSA DIEZ

  • LA HORA DE LOS HORNOS

  • BATATO BAREA

ANA MENDIETA

A performance by the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985). More information: http://www.galerielelong.com/artist/ana-mendieta

TIQQUN

A video by the French group TIQQUN, based on texts from their book Llamamiento y otros fogonazos, published by Editorial Acuarela. The book can be downloaded in Spanish from: http://acuarelalibros.blogspot.com/2011/01/descargate-llamamiento-y-otros.html, and some of their work is available in English at http://www.bloom0101.org/translations.html

MARTXELO OTAMENDI

Basque journalist and teacher Martxelo Otamendi is the former director of the Egunkaria, which was the only newspaper written entirely in Basque and was closed by court order during the government of José Maria Aznar. In this video, he explains how and why he was tortured by the security forces of the Spanish state.

ROSA DIEZ

Spanish politician, leader of the progressive social liberal party UPyD, and former minister of the Basque government and European MP for the PSOE, Rosa Diez explains the relationship between the Spanish flag, the Spanish constitution and a citizenry with full rights.

LA HORA DE LOS HORNOS

The start of the film La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces), which was made by Argentinean filmmakers Fernando "Pino" Solanas and Octavio Getino in 1968, when they were part of the revolutionary activist film movement Grupo Cine Liberación.

It is divided into three parts: "Neocolonialism and violence", "Act for Liberation" ? which is in turn divided into two periods, "Cronicle of Peronism (1945-1955)" and "Chronicle of Resistance (1955-1966)" ? and "Violence and Liberation".

BATATO BAREA

Batato Bareo was an Argentinean actor, performer, vaudeville actor and clown born in 1961, who defined himself as a "literary-transvestite clown". He was part of the group that flourished in the arts centre Parakultaral and the nightclub Cemento in the eighties, transcending the traditional spaces of representation of Argentinean theatre. As Melero said in the wonderful book edited by Fernando Noy, "I swear by Batato. He taught us that success isn?t about the spaces of reproduction but the stirrings of the soul".