Javier Toscano

Javier Toscano is a filmmaker, visual artist and writer. His work has involved a continuous quest to generate and collaborate with minorities, groups with disabilities and other communities towards the production of alternative narratives of self-affirmation and vital exploration. He was a founding member of Laboratorio 060 with which he won the first prize of the Best Art Practices Award (Bolzano, Italy, 2008) More information on javiertoscano.net

4 episodes

Non fiction 11 min.

On a never produced film by Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut, the two Stanley Kubrick classics could never have existed without "This Virus from Space", the only film ever released by the American director.

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Non fiction 9 min.

How Columbus ruined my birthday

Javier was born on the same day as the Mexican national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus. An almost harmless date until statues started to be taken down.

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Long read 12 min.

The Revolution Was Televised (but we all thought it was the weather channel)

Kashef was a leader of the revolution in Egypt in 2011. 10 years later, he looks back on this movement from Berlin where he is exiled.

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Non fiction 14 min.

The QAnon diaries: 3 chronicles

Three stories to better understand who are the QAnon, a conspiracy movement born in 2017 and which now has millions of followers.

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