A historical analysis of the on-going war in the Western Sahara. Liza Bear interviews Abdullah Majdid, the Polisario Front's United Nations representative. The tape addresses Morocco's U.S.-backed military effort to subjugate the indigenous Sahrawi population and annex one of the world's largest phosphate deposits, as well as the Sahrawis' conditions for a referendum.
During the late 1970s Liza Béar created an intriguing body of work that focused on communications issues — specifically the use of media and the disempowered role of the public in communications policy. Central to Béar's early work was a desire to tie the means of production (technology) to the reasons for production (economic advantage, national ideology, etc.). While Béar's concerns have diversified, her approach is always personal and experimental — collapsing the norms of narrative and documentary, subjective authorship and objective document.