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DESCRIPTION:What Would It Mean To Win? - 2008, 40 min.\n\n"What Would It Mean To Win?" 
 was filmed on the blockades at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany in 
 June 2007. In their first collaborative film Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler 
 focus on the current state of the counter-globalisation movement in a 
 project which grows out of both artists' preoccupation with globalisation 
 and its discontents. The film, which combines documentary footage, 
 interviews, and animation sequences, is structured around three questions 
 pertinent to the movement: Who are we? What is our power? What would it 
 mean to win?\n\n"What Would It Mean To Win?", as the title implies, 
 addresses this central question for the movement. During the Seattle 
 demonstrations "we are winning" was a popular graffiti slogan that captured 
 the sense of euphoria that came with the birth of a new movement. Since 
 that time however this slogan has been regarded in a much more speculative 
 manner. This film aims to move beyond the question of whether we are 
 "winning" or not by addressing what would it actually mean to win.\n\nWhen 
 addressing the question "what would it mean to win?" John Holloway quotes 
 Subcomandante Marcos who once described "winning" as the ability to live an 
 "infinite film program" where participants could re-invent themselves each 
 day, each hour, each minute. The animated sequences take this as their 
 starting point to explore how ideas of social agency, struggle and winning 
 are incorporated into our imagination of politics.\n\nInterviewees: Emma 
 Dowling, John Holloway, Adam Irissou, Tadzio Mueller, Michael Osterweil, 
 Sarah T.\n\nThis is what democracy looks like! - 2002, 30 min.\n\nIn the 
 video "This is what democracy looks like!" (not the Big Noise film about 
 Seattle) anti-capitalist demonstrators take the role of active 
 spokespersons, contrary to dominant media representations that denigrate 
 them as either naive or violent chaotic rowdies. Conversations about the 
 events in Salzburg were carried out with six demonstrators. The central 
 themes developed in the video are; the limitation of basic democratic 
 rights - which is shown mainly in the ban on demonstrating and the 
 detainment of hundreds of people in police encirclement - and the tension 
 between the limited physical force of a few demonstrators and the 
 structural violence practiced by state power. Excerpts from the 
 conversations are put together with my own video recordings and those from 
 (video) activists in Salzburg. The camera angle corresponds with the 
 perspective of the demonstrators, thereby placing video viewers in direct 
 confrontation with the events.\n\nInterviewees: Walter Baier, Tanja Jenni, 
 Ingrid Popper, Michael Pröbsting, Daniel Sanin, Irene Zavarsky\nVideo 
 material from Indymedia Austria, Filmliga Linz, offscreen - offenes film 
 forum salzburg, UTV Vienna, Oliver Ressler\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/08/18505237.php
SUMMARY:What Would It Mean to Win? Counter-globalization movement videos by Oliver Ressler
LOCATION:Artists' Television Access\n992 Valencia Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94110\nwww.atasite.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/08/18505237.php
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