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DESCRIPTION:"Venezuela From Below" and "The Fittest Survive"\n\nDiscussions about the 
 current situation in Venezuela will follow, stimulated by Hands Off 
 Venezuela members Ann Robertson and Gabriel Cabrera. Ann is a professor of 
 philosophy at SFSU and Gabriel is a student at the New College. \n\nOliver 
 Ressler is an artist doing projects on various socio-political themes. 
 Since 1994 he has been concerned with theme specific exhibitions, projects 
 in public space, and videos on issues of racism, migration, genetic 
 engineering, economics, forms of resistance and social alternatives. The 
 films "Venezuela from Below" and "5 Factories–Worker Control in 
 Venezuela" made with political analyst Dario Azzellini, will be screened on 
 consecutive evenings, with his most recent video "The Fittest Survive", 
 accompanying "Venezuela from Below" on the first night. Discussions will 
 follow.\n\n*Venezuela From Below*\n*Video – 2004 – 67 min.*\n*Dario 
 Azzellini and Oliver Ressler*\n\nIn the film "Venezuela from Below," the 
 true actors in the social process are able to speak. They are the people of 
 the grassroots and they speak about what they did and what they are doing, 
 how they feel about the Bolivarian process, about their expectations and 
 ideas. They see themselves as part of the process that is underway, but 
 also problematize numerous points. The search for a social and economic 
 model beyond neo-liberalism is no easy terrain; there are currently no 
 successful, tested alternatives. The protagonists in the Bolivarian process 
 have, however, set upon a path from which there is no return.\n\n*The 
 Fittest Survive*\n*Video – 2006 – 23 min.*\n* Oliver Ressler*\n\nThe 
 video "The Fittest Survive" is based on filming the five-day course 
 "Surviving Hostile Regions" done in January 2006 in Wales, Great Britain by 
 the AKE Group. The course instructors are British ex-special force 
 soldiers. The participants are businessmen who are preparing for business 
 in Iraq and other dangerous regions, government officials and mainstream 
 journalists who, with their dishonest discourse of democracy and human 
 rights, help to legitimise and secure the ideology of market-economics 
 expansion.\n\nThe video, primarily filmed by hand camera, follows the 
 survival-course participants as they experience the staged reality of live 
 shell bombardments, an assault by armed guerrillas, the rescue of accident 
 victims, and moving through mine fields. Above this training camp in Wales, 
 low-flying British fighter planes hold manoeuvres and foreshadow the real 
 war theatres in which the class participants will soon be.\n\nFor more 
 information on Oliver Ressler's work visit http://www.ressler.at/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/28/18475437.php
SUMMARY:Video Resistance – Works by Oliver Ressler
LOCATION:Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 
 (415) 824-3890
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/28/18475437.php
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