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It’s one of those symbolic moments: a couple of weeks ago, Kodak filed for bankruptcy because it has failed to keep up with the shift from analogue to digital photography. This is the company that launched the consumer market for amateur photography in 1888, with its famous box camera. A dozen years later, by inventing a process […]
Patricio Guzmán’s latest film finally reaches London at a DocHouse screening on 2nd February. The Atacama desert in the north of Chile—the location for Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light)—is one the driest places on earth, where astronomers have located optical and radio telescopes to take advantage of the extraordinarily clear […]
After my rather long silence, an uncharacteristically short post. We gathered, on an unusually warm day for January, at the London College of Communication in Elephant & Castle for the third seminar convened by the Artists’ Moving Image Research Network, with Pratap Rughani and Catherine Elwes as our hosts, to talk about the relations and […]
24 January 2012 | history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com On Copyright and Capital Well I was going to join today’s ‘internet strike’ and close down the site for the day in solidarity with the movement against SOPA – the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act with its repressive measures against file sharing. Maybe I would even leave a cool message like this […]
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Back from my trip a week ago, I buried myself in editing the video I shot in Chile on the student movement, which screens on Saturday 3 December at the Latin American solidarity conference in London and Saturday 10th December at the Roehampton Human Rights Film Festival. Now it’s done, and I break off briefly to give […]
What happens when you privatise a public education system? PROTEST CHILE premieres on Saturday 3 December 2011 at Latin America 2011 A d e l a n t e ! Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1 ~ also screening on Saturday 10 December at Roehampton Human Rights Film Festival University of Roehampton ~ A […]
Continuing the theme of my penultimate post, a documentary report has appeared on Al Jazeera (‘Images of Revolution’, dir. Ibrahim Hamdan) presenting ‘the story behind the iconic images of the Arab uprisings as told by those who filmed them’. It’s a pretty good film for anyone thinking about the subject, or teaching social media, from […]
The world represented by the mainstream media is still governed by a division into centre and periphery which has been thrown into doubt by recent events—not only the global effects of economic crisis, but the popular protest movements which have sprung up in Europe, the Middle East, and now the USA. It is nowadays the […]
from The Student Journals WRITTEN BY GAH-KAI LEUNG | 02 SEPTEMBER 2011 In his study “Rabelais and His World,” literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin writes of carnival as a “temporary suspension… of hierarchical rank [which creates] a special type of communication impossible in everyday life.” Bahktin’s influential theory of the carnivalesque seems to leave traces all over the very public […]