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A 3-minutes clip covering parts of the actionday against war, militarism and torture during the g8-meeting in heiligendamm in june 2007

Medicine and police violence at the G8 protests: A look at allergies, yogurt, rye fields, water cannons, tear gas and blue blue sky.

what, or who, is a companero? or a comrade, genosse? is a companero the same as a comrade? and who is not a comrade, genosse, companero? across different political languages – not only the tongues in which they're spoken, but the different forms of political life that they express and participate in –, the point of a single-question interview is precisely to help differences appear.

das lied von der erde, ‘the sky remains blue forever/ and the earth will remain for long/ and
bloom again/ in spring./ but you, man,/ how long do you have to live?/ not hundred years do you have to enjoy/ all the transient pleasures/ of this earth.’ (music by gustav mahler, poem by li-tai-po, translated from the chinese by hans bethgen) images from the via campesina march in rostock on the 3rd of june.

‘enquanto seu lobo nao vem’
while mr.

Ping Pong d'Amour beginnt mit einer Wohngemeinschaft, die zwischen der geschäftigen Fantasie 'junger Unternehmer' (Start-Up) und real-live Effekten der sog. Doku-Soaps hin und her pendelt. Den Bewohnern gelingt es einfach nicht, ihr Leben mit ihren Jobs in ein Gleichgewicht zu bringen.

Aber anders als bei anderen Doku-Soaps sind die Figuren nicht in ihrer propagierten Authentizität gefangen, sondern in eine ironische, intellektualisierte, schein-französische Welt verschoben.

what, or who, is a companero? or a comrade, genosse? is a companero the same as a comrade? and who is not a comrade, genosse, companero?
across different political languages – not only the tongues in which they're spoken, but the different forms of political life that they express and participate in –, the point of a single-question interview is precisely to help differences appear.

This is a story of Yugoslavs who left the country in war and spent over ten years in Western Europe as refugees or in asylum. In the second half of the year 2002 European Union sent many of these people back to Serbia and Montenegro together with their families, believing that there were no more reasons for their stay. Procedures for their return were usually very strict. Families would be gathered during the night, transported to the airport and sent to Belgrade on the first flight.

Based on a year of ongoing conversations and interviews with migrant workers working as cleaners in the London Underground, this film is about their living and working conditions as as migrants with precarious status, as well as working under the Public Private Partnership of the London Underground.

Divided in three parts the film speaks first about the everyday living and working conditions in the Underground.

This is a conversation that was held between Budge, Anja and Manuela on the occasion of the counter G8 rememberance summit in Heiligendamm 2077. Remembering migrancy and conditions for transnational movement, activism, hopes, desires and the general political climate at the beginning of the millenium.