Global Insights is a series of video compilations of subversive shorts from around the world.

The Global Insights videos have seen hundreds of free public screenings from Tamil Nadu to Antarctica - inspiring grass-roots people's action and fostering an independent and accessable screen culture globally.

Click below for details of previous global insights:
[ GLOBAL INSIGHTS 4 ] [ GLOBAL INSIGHTS 3 ] [ GLOBAL INSIGHTS 2 ]

Since the advent of cheap camcorders and video editing software for home computers, there has been an explosion of exciting video works which are not limited by the conservative agendas of government or commercial funding bodies and broadcasters. Email has made global communication between these producers possible, and a new underground screen culture is emerging.

Global Insights 3 saw free screenings around Australia - including Adelaide, Newcastle, Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane, Perth, Alice Springs, Coober Pedy, Nepabunna and Port Augusta - and around the world, including The Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Austria, France, Germany, India, South Korea and Antarctica.... that we know of. Global Insights 4 first screened in November 2001 in Melbourne and is now making it's way around the globe.

You can become part of this network too! Contact us for details accessnews@skatv.org.au

The Lab Rats in their vegie-oil-fueled van (with solar-powered-sound-system and wind-powered-cinema) have screened the videos for entertainment, information and inspiration at street parties and forest blockades around Europe and Australia. lab-rats.tripod.com

In addition, segments from the global insights videos have been seen on community/public-access tv broadcasters, the internet, and other videozines worldwide.

Global Insights hopes to contribute to the development of grass-roots people's action in the communities in which it is screened. Global Insights is put together on a miniscule budget by volunteers. It is a collaboration between independent media groups around the world, involving hundreds of people.

There may be a Global Insights 5 if you send us your short subversive video works!