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Posted: 19-Jun-2008 Video duration : 12 minutes 0 seconds
In the name of oil palm
The impact of oil palm in the Oro Province and the challenges faced by landowners and organisations who are trying to stop the expansion of oil palm plantations in the region. Read more…
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Posted: 12-Jun-2008 Video duration : 6 minutes 0 seconds
Transmission Asia-Pacific (TXAP) 2008
TXAP 2008 From May 19-25 2008 fifty-five tech and video activists gathered in West Java, Indonesia to share code and stories. Organised by EngageMedia and the Jakarta based Ruangrupa Transmission Asia-Pacific brought together projects from 15 different countries, from Japan to India, and China to New Zealand, to discuss ways to most effectively use online video as a social change tool. Read more…
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Posted: 03-Jun-2008 Video duration : 6 minutes 47 seconds
Sanying Aboriginal Community in Taipei
Sanying Aboriginal Community in Taipei County, like Sijeou Aboriginal Community and many aboriginal communities spotted at corners of big cities in Taiwan, is a forgotten place where many aborigines live and count on. However, the sweet homes to these indigenous people is not only vulnerable to typhoons and thunderstorms, but also to bureaucrats'construction blue prints. Inhabitants of Sanying Aboriginal Community are the latest victims whose self-made house have been torn apart on Feb 21 by bulldozers and excavators under the order of Taipei County Government. Read more…
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Posted: 25-May-2008 Video duration : 2 minutes 42 seconds
VS02: Team #2 - So Hard
A parody on action film trailers featuring Melbourne's Lord Mayor, John So. Created by Team #2 for the second OPEN CHANNEL VIDEO SLAM 02: Appropriate Original, Arts Law Week 2008. Read more…
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Posted: 12-May-2008 Video duration : 5 minutes 55 seconds
Timor Mass
Written and produced in memory of those who suffered and perished during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. The midnight mass that appears on this piece was recorded on the eve of the millennium. Timor Mass was produced for Undercurrents which was commissioned for the opening of the 2001 Taipei International Arts Festival. Read more…
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Posted: 25-Apr-2008 Video duration : 1 minute 20 seconds
Treat (or Trick)
A short animation on the legendary magician, Mr Invisible Hand, which was produced for the Esky film program coordinated by Keg de Souza (www.whereisesky.com) as part of the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne. TREAT (OR TRICK) is dedicated to the concept of negotiation and market-driven forces. It pulls a rabbit out of a hat, then makes it disappear, all in the name of capitalist ideology. Read more…
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Posted: 22-Apr-2008 Video duration : 4 minutes 46 seconds
Unreal Estate
In February 2000 people started living in empty South Sydney City Council-owned buildings on Broadway close to the centre of Sydney. Residents cleaned up the places, made them habitable and created a cafe, art gallery and more. On 23rd August 2000, just before the Sydney Olympics, the squatters were discovered. From that point onwards the Council attempted to evict the squatters. The Broadway squats were the first squats in some time to be open about their autonomous occupation. Read more…
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Posted: 11-Apr-2008 Video duration : 16 minutes 0 seconds
Project RENEW
Since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, more than 100,000 Vietnamese children and adults have been killed or injured by accidental explosions of bombs, landmines, artillery shells, cluster bombs, grenades and other munitions. This video is about a mine-action project, RENEW, being implemented by Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Read more…
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Posted: 25-Mar-2008 Video duration : 3 minutes 56 seconds
The Shape Of My Tongue
'Shape Of My Tongue' is part of a series of spoken word pieces inspired by the words of the Sufi poet Rumi and modernised by Sydney artist Thomas, Jack of Hearts. Video produced by Undergrowth.org. Read more…
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Posted: 05-Mar-2008 Video duration : 3 minutes 35 seconds
Handloom Migrant Burmese Workers
Thousand of Burmese are going to the Indian border area daily, in the hope of finding work and enough money to survive. Some people enter the India border site and work as grocers, and some families have shifted to the border site and work handloom jobs. Most of the goods from Burma enter Mure (border site) to Imphal (the capital city of Manipur, Inida) to other places in india. Border Gate(1) had been banned since the September Revolution in Burma. But Border Gate(2) from which most of the goods from Burma are exported to India, remains open. Read more…
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Posted: 14-Feb-2008 Video duration : 15 minutes 0 seconds
Bankrupt - part 1
A documentary about Gerhard Wiedmann, a German forester, and his battles with NSW State Forestry over local destruction impacting on his private land. Read more…
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Posted: 08-Feb-2008 Video duration : 9 minutes 55 seconds
The Gordon Splits
Wilderness photographer Peter Dombrovskis visits the Gordon Splits in Tasmania's Southwest during the time of the Franklin dam controversy in the early 1980s. Read more…
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Posted: 06-Feb-2008 Video duration : 10 minutes 0 seconds
The Yiriman Project
A short doco explaining the work of Yiriman, a Youth Project in the Kimberley seeking to build stories in young people. Yiriman and the Back to Country trips were conceived and developed by elders concerned for their young people, particularly in regard for the capacity for self harm and substance abuse, and saw the need for a place where youth could separate themselves from negative influences, and reconnect with their culture in a remote and culturally significant place. Read more…
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Posted: 28-Jan-2008 Video duration : 6 minutes 0 seconds
Selamat Harijadi (Happy Birthday)
After 50 (or is it 44?) years of being together, as a team; there are still many things that perplexes us about each other in Malaysia. From gender to religion, it is never really just about race with us. But the point is (if there ever should be a point), does it matter? Read more…
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Posted: 20-Jan-2008 Video duration : 4 minutes 30 seconds
Cape York's Wild Rivers
Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland, north of Cairns, is one of the last great wild places on Earth. But its wild rivers are unprotected. These magnificent rivers are the lifeblood for the Cape's communities and a huge diversity of wildlife. Read more…
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Posted: 09-Jan-2008 Video duration : 7 minutes 33 seconds
People's Blockade of the Worlds' Biggest Coal Port
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 -- hundreds of people came to Newcastle Harbour to take action against Australia's biggest contribution to climate change: coal exports. The action was part of a community campaign to stop the massive expansion of Newcastle coal port - already the biggest coal exporter in the world. Read more…
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Posted: 05-Jan-2008 Video duration : 9 minutes 6 seconds
Unheard, Unknown
A short documentary about the abductions, killings and persecution of political activists in the Philippines under the Arroyo government - a story you don't get to hear in the mainstream media. Arroyo declared a State of Emergency giving her government extraordinary powers to quash protest. Interviews with those who have been arrested and solidarity movements in Australia. Read more…
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Posted: 03-Jan-2008 Video duration : 11 minutes 8 seconds
Climate Change, Bicycling, and YOU
Have you been naughty? Do you drive your car three blocks to the grocery store and leave your lights on all night? Well, sit back and be lectured. You will be relieved to hear, first in the style a 50’s educational film strip and then in a more modern fashion, that the easiest way to mend your naughty ways is also the most fun: Bicycling. Read more…
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Posted: 15-Dec-2007 Video duration : 6 minutes 0 seconds
Victorian Premiers broken conservation promises
When the Premier is a liar who can you trust? In 1995 John Brumby was the leader of the Victorian Labor party then in opposition. In this clip from 1995 we see John Brumby speak with passion declaring if elected a Labor government would end all logging in High Conservation Value old-growth forests, end all export wood chipping in Victoria and move the logging industry completely out of old-growth forests and into Plantations. Read more…
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Posted: 13-Dec-2007 Video duration : 9 minutes 50 seconds
Lawyers For Freedom Of Assembly Bersama Rakyat
An independent account of the events that happened at the 'Lawyers For Freedom Of Assembly Bersama Rakyat' march in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This video documents the events that took place up to the point when the lawyers were arrested by police officers for 'participating in an illegal assembly' Read more…
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Filmmaker Collective Profile - Plug-in TV
Plug-in TV production meeting