L'Ateneu

Special session with the double screening of the short films Terror Contagion and Quipu Project. Both short films deepen on how two communities have suffered abuse by governments and corporations, but also how they have used technology to confront it.

Introduction by

• Carlos Bajo is a journalist and social researcher. Currently, he is in charge of Oxfam Intermón Digital Justice work line. Before, for more than a decade, he had collaborated in different media on topics related to his specialization: the use of ICT in Africa and new citizen movements on the continent.
• Carlos Diaz is a researcher at the Observatori Drets Humans i Empreses a la Mediterrània, a joint initiative of Suds and Novact, in which we highlight Shock Monitor project. He has specialized in the phenomena of security privatization, human security and social control. He is author of the paper Mass Surveillance.
• In dialogue with Mar Escarrabill, responsible for community relations and research in Canòdrom.

Terror Contagion

Laura Poitras, director of Citizen Four, raises her voice in the midst of COVID lockdown to denounce the violence and violation of human rights by the cyber surveillance company NSO Group. Brian Eno's music immerses us in an atmosphere of terror and accompanies the investigation of Forensic Architecture, a research group that has been denouncing the abuse of power by governments and private corporations in the digital world for years.

A visual study by award-winning director Laura Poitras of the cyber surveillance company NSO Group, responsible for the Pegasus software that spies on journalists, political dissidents and activists around the world. Despite the increase in complaints, NSO Group continues to act with total impunity.

Details

• Laura Poitras, United States, 2021, 25 min.
• Recommended age: +12
• Original version with Spanish subtitles

Quipu: Calls for Justice

Esperanza and Teodula ask for justice in rural Peru, after being forcibly sterilized more than 18 years ago, during the Fujimori government. The Quipu Project is a telephone line that allows victims from all over the country to share their shocking testimonies, to avoid impunity for those responsible.

A case of using technology and video to mobilize communities affected by human rights violations by governments. More than 300,000 Peruvian citizens, predominantly poor and indigenous women, were subjected to forced sterilization. The program has been widely described as ethnic cleansing.

Detalles técnicos

• Rosemarie Lerner and Maria Court, 2017, Peru, 21 min.
• Recommended age: +12
• Original version with Spanish subtitles

Docs Hedy Lamarr 2024

Cinema, science, technology and feminism join hands in the Documentary Film Series Docs Hedy Lamarr 2024, which takes place at the Canòdrom - Center for Digital and Democratic Innovation during the month of June. In this fourth edition, we explore the physical effects of technology beyond digital life: from how violence is exercised on feminized bodies, to how people reappropriate technology and organize to claim their rights.

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