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It’s almost a year since anti-capitalist protestors, intending to set up camp in front of the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square under the banner of Occupy LSX, were ejected from the square and parked themselves instead in front of St Paul’s Cathedral. The result was one of the starting points for this film: a […]
Won’t solve your money problems, but it might make you think about why you’ve got them. ‘A Short Film About Money’ is a spin-off from a longer film I’ve been making with Lee Salter, ‘Secret City’, which launches soon. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFcoelfewXc&feature=plcp[/youtube] ‘Secret City’ is an investigation into the Corporation of the City of London which governs […]
A new online journal from Colombia, Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ‘9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. (In Spanish and English, with subtitles.) [vimeo 48867239] It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, ‘Three Short Films about Chile’. http://cine.revistacoronica.com/2012/09/tres-cortos-sobre-chile-por-michael.html which Javier Toloza writes about here (in […]
A new online journal from Colombia, Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ‘9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, Three Short Films about Chile. Here is Juan’s video (in Spanish and English, with subtitles). [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/48867239#[/vimeo]
Just a trifle, an exercise in kitsch. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/47962913[/vimeo] Shot on a Sony HDR-CX 250, handheld throughout.
A long time, I know, since the last post. That’s because I’ve been hard at work on a new film, to be unveiled soon. Back in August, however, I had a welcome break with a visit to Cyprus for the Lemesos documentary festival, one of the numerous such events that have have flowered in so […]
Screening of ‘Protest Chile’ (last part of 3 About Chile) at DocHouse RESISTENCIA: FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA on Saturday 22nd September | Rich Mix Cinema, E1, at 2.30 (Day begins at 12.30 – details http://bit.ly/NpyRO8) DocHouse presents… ‘RESISTENCIA: Focus on Latin America’ A journey across Latin America today, through revealing documentaries and illuminating discussion. DAY PASS – […]
or ‘Me gustan los estudiantes’: Mario Handler at St Andrews The Uruguayan documentarist Mario Handler came to St Andrews recently for a symposium revisiting New Latin American Cinema of the 60s through the Uruguayan case. The event was able organised by Beatriz Tadeo Fuica, included a prety cogent overview of Documentary and Activism by Leshu Torshin, […]
Friday 29 June 2012, 7.30pm St John, Bethnal Green Screening of ‘Three Short Films About Chile’ with speakers Details: New Voices Festival
In 2002 the Cuban filmmaker Fernando Pérez made a compelling documentary called Suite Habana which portrayed the melancholic mood of the Cuban capital at the start of the 21st century. Ten years later the mood is rather different, as I discovered on my first visit to Cuba for three years, for a Seminar on Cuban […]