Comrade Alfredo Neri
Duration: 20 min. Khaled Ramadan. 2006.
The video Comrade Alfredo Neri is about visual manipulation. It demonstrates
how motion picture, in all its forms can drag us into or out of
something, how it affects our feelings and helps shaping our opinion.
The video was meant to raise awareness, not of the Neo Nazi movement
only, but of the media’s participation in shaping our world-views
and opinions.
The mainstream media these days can no longer deliver self critic,
most of it is engage rather in promoting personal ideology, self promotion
and aggressive campaign on profit and audience. Independent
documentaries are also affected by what mainstream media want and
what it exclude, therefore contemporary production of documentary is
in the focus of our documentary performance.
The message of the video goes beyond the skinhead movement. It is
about how the mainstream media in Europe, and in the west in general,
has decided to ignore its own right wing radicalism, which is on the
march, and focus on the other radical groupings from around the world
instead.
Devil Man
Duration: 20 min. Khaled Ramadan. 2006.
The footage in the film is shut undercover on a train trip between the
Swedish city of Malmo and Copenhagen in 2006.
Video maker Khaled Ramadan find himself alone in the train compartment
with a homeless man who questioned Ramadan’s entire background
and existence, to surprise him in the end by “saying the devil is
on me, you can see it”.
The devil man turns out to be a wise man, knowledgeable of world
maters including the Lebanese/Middle East conflict. The devil man uses
to be a university lecturer but collapsed economically and couldn’t
stand up again in a capitalistic society.
The film debates trans-national, geo-political and socio-cultural issues
in an imaginary climate. |
