The Bull Laid Bear
A film by Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler 24 min., 2012 “If I walk in and say, ‘I am going to blow myself up’ in a crowded subway and extort somebody for money, you can probably get people to pay you a lot of money to not blow yourself up. The banks […] were effectively […]
Leave It in the Ground
A film by Oliver Ressler 18 min., 2013 In recent years, countless extreme weather events clearly indicate that climate change is not only a future phenomenon but is already taking place. Some effects of global warming—desertification, more frequent droughts, less frequent but more intense precipitation, lower crop yields—inflame existing social conflicts. In the Global South, […]
The Plundering
A film by Oliver Ressler Georgian with English subtitles, 40 min, 2013 “We can talk about the ‘plundering’ of Georgia. Public property, which in fact should serve the common needs of society, has become the property of individuals. For example, if that project became successful, the citizens now using this park would not be able […]
The Right of Passage
A film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler 23 min., 2013 In their third collaborative film Zanny Begg (Sydney) and Oliver Ressler (Vienna) focus on struggles to obtain citizenship, while at the same time questioning the implicitly exclusionary nature of the concept. The Right of Passage is partially constructed through a series of interviews with […]
Take The Square
A film by Oliver Ressler 89 min., 2012 The emergence of the movements of the squares and the Occupy movement in 2011 can be seen as a reaction by people who opposed and began to fight the massive increase in social inequality and the dismantling of democracy in times of global financial and economic crisis. […]
In The Red
A film by Ana Pečar & Oliver Ressler 20 min., 2014 In the Red is a film about the Strike Debt group, an offshoot organization of Occupy Wall Street in New York City. The group organizes around debts, an instrument of control and maintenance of economic power. Strike Debt initiates several activities to expose hidden […]
Occupy, Resist, Produce – RiMaflow
A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler 34 min., 2014 The Maflow plant in Trezzano sul Naviglio, located on the industrial periphery of Milan, was part of the Italian transnational car parts producer Maflow, one of the most important manufacturers of air conditioning tubes worldwide. Far from suffering consequences of the crisis and with […]
The Visible and the Invisible
A film by Oliver Ressler 20 min., 2014 In recent years, Switzerland has become the global center for commodity trading. In no other country are more commodities bought and sold than in Switzerland; nevertheless, the crude oil, copper, aluminum, coal or wheat never reaches Swiss territory because the deals are carried out completely in a […]
Occupy, Resist, Produce – Officine Zero
A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler 33 min., 2015 Officine Zero, former RSI (Rail Service Italia) was dedicated to the maintenance and repair of sleeping cars. When in December 2011 Italian train services decided to stop the night train service and invest in fast track trains, RSI closed. Some 20 workers out of […]
Emergency Turned Upside-Down
A film by Oliver Ressler 16 min., 2016 This film was shaped by the “summer of migration” of 2015, when the Schengen system was suspended for several weeks and wealthy European states temporarily opened borders for refugees from Syria and the wider war-zone world. But it soon became obvious that the “welcome culture” of a […]