Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: COP21 (excerpt)
The Fittest Survive
A video by Oliver Ressler 23 min., 2006 “Risk” and “danger”, “disaster” and “wilderness” are no longer the disavowed flipside of the globalisation dream. These erstwhile deterrents are factors to be calculated, mastered, hedged and traded by the best and strongest: a “challenge”, an “opportunity” and a useful test of the ruthlessness required from economic […]
Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?
A film by Oliver Ressler 19 min., 2010 “Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?” focuses on the political and economic situation in the Republic of Armenia, one of the successor states of the Soviet Union. The film was recorded in summer 2010 in Yerevan’s largest bazaar, called “Bangladesh”. Every day more than 1000 […]
Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: ENDE GELÄNDE (excerpt)
Venezuela from Below
A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler 67 min., 2004 In Venezuela, a profound social transformation identified as the Bolivarian process has been underway since Hugo Chávez’s governmental takeover in 1998. It concerns a broad process of self organization, from which has developed a progressive constitution, a labor law, new educational possibilities, and a […]
5 Factories – Worker Control in Venezuela
A Film by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler 81 min., 2006 In their second film regarding political and social change in Venezuela, after “Venezuela from Below” (67 min., 2004), Azzellini and Ressler focus on the industrial sector in “5 Factories–Worker Control in Venezuela“. The changes in Venezuela’s productive sphere are demonstrated with five large companies […]
Comuna Under Construction
A film by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler 94 min., 2010 “We have to decide for ourselves what we want. We are the ones who know about our needs and what is happening in our community”, Omayra Peréz explains confidently. She wants to convince her community, located on the hillside of the poor districts of […]
Rote Zora
a video by Oliver Ressler, 28 min., German/Engl., 2000 Rote Zora is a militant women’s group that carried out over twenty attacks and various other offences in Germany in the eighties. They fought against atomic, gene and reproduction technologies; the corresponding targets of their attacks were companies such as Bayer, Schering and Siemens, research institutes […]
Disobbedienti
A video by Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini 54 min, 2002 The video ”Disobbedienti” thematizes the Disobbedienti’s origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement. The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. […]
Border Crossing Services
a video by Oliver Ressler & Martin Krenn, 51. min., German/English, 2001 The European Union member states’ restrictive immigration regulations mean that there is almost no chance to legally migrate to the EU and reside in a member state. For those who want to enter, making use of border crossing services is often the only […]