Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926
15M’s short history has been recorded, expressed, created artistically through a remarkable diversity of media, media directly woven into the fabric of the movement. Toma la plaza has also implied a taking of the arts. It is far too early yet to discern radically novel artistic forms from the movement, though it has through video, television, radio, print media, graphic art, music, poetry, plastic arts, touched or given rise to expressive forms. But then perhaps the movement itself, its’ radicalness, lies in its aesthetic reality, that is, in a politics of beauty.
A return to the first year of the history of 15M, in video, in chronological order, without titles and without any pretense to be exhaustive …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SAfFFpGF3E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQmduWJVVmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYlVMV5xEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXbqR7S3ThY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7U9Kz5_6w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zDMXXifXRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZeCdSak24E&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jsdwVNyVwE&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPTiJi4CUk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NB2RsH8YVE&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.desrealitat.org/2011/06/analisis-del-15m-con-jose-luis-sampedro.html
http://madrid.democraciarealya.es/2011/06/14/documental-sobre-el-15m-todos-cuentan/
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/programa/informe-semanal-lenta-marcha/1138415/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL4Y7JLXfBs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0cploew4-3M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLr5bNmpQ0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqMky52Ehc&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7XQLRdNck&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf87UvNUOgQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRIbcO20miY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fGVlfvfF2_4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2Zs6YiIxA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjz81FNYN3Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35yZMr1DHpo
http://blip.tv/acampadabcn/marcha-popular-indignada-ruta-nororiental-barcelona-1%C2%AA-parte-5386977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ThaKMKgoHI&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_MbNcIIcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgh9Tu16BR0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K5PkmE1OYI&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvvtG2JXwiI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2QGuLhIE1o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GGKfps7AwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ka16S4NkBE&feature=related*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAJl-LmEE4Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjUIEAZr4Yo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOGhP2DBjQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFV-tEFBE1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UUqD77jtOoE
http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/2011/12/16/audiovisol-presenta-su-cuenta-de-twitter/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijzeo0cwEOs&feature=related
http://blip.tv/agoras-info/inside-15m-48h-with-the-indignants-5434649
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMLd4kxNQqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuJTiHrU78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9XBPlOxC2Es
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xy0MlTFu-g&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqQsCJLzvzo&feature=related
http://feministesindignades.blogspot.com/2012/03/aquest-8-de-marc-pren-el-carrer.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gzWQILlNEPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHCMevzImtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDBJjvUSQEU
http://www.acampadadebarcelona.org/ca/acampadabcn/item/699-el-despertar-de-les-places-un-any-del-15m
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A few general documentaries about 15M…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ds7b3pboW4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oaiMqQn0w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arohfPG1dI
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The 15m.cc project … among other things, an oral history/reflection on 15M …
http://www.15m.cc/p/conversaciones-15mcc.html
A presentation of the project …
http://www.15m.cc/p/proyecto.html
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To conclude, Eduardo Galeano in the Acampada de Barcelona …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBW3XRN7OK0