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December 2, 2011 Announcements, News, Video No Comments

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

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also screening on Saturday 10 December at
Roehampton Human Rights Film Festival
University of Roehampton

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A video by Michael Chanan

No to Profit!

Filmed in November 2011.

An account of the huge student protest movement in Chile including
occupations, marches, demonstrations, street actions and web activism
and its impact on the country’s political life as they demand the return of free public education
in place of the most intensely privatised education system in the world

Essential viewing for anyone concerned with the future of
schools and universities in Britain under the plans enacted
and laid in by the Coalition Government

with generous collaboration by

Filmmakers
Renato Dennis, Rodrigo Tossi, Marcos Salazar

Archive
Señal  La Victoria, Revista Vaso

Interviews
Carlos Ossa, Manuel Antonio Garretón
Marcia Tambutti Allende

ICEI Universidad de Chile,
Tiziana Panizza, Carlos Flores

Available Soon!

Video blogging

January 28, 2011 Announcements, Video No Comments

“Last autumn, in response to the coalition’s spending cuts, Britain saw the emergence of the first mass protest movement in a generation. One result has been an outpouring of online video, giving a very different picture to the one presented by the mainstream media, but making it hard sometimes to see the wood for the trees.

To that end, the New Statesman is pleased to announce a collaboration with the documentary film-maker Michael Chanan, who has been filming some of the events fuelling the protest movement. Focusing on the arts, both within and outside academia, he is building up a picture of the movement as it develops.”

Watch these videos here. Read my blog about the project: Video Blogging for the New Statesman: Camera in hand and idea in the head.

Recent Videos

August 11, 2010 Video No Comments

‘The Writing on the Wall is on the Web’
Netroots UK, 8 January 2011 ‧ original version

Turner Prize Teach-In
Tate Britain, 6 December 2010 ‧ original version

The Buzz in Buenos Aires
 Student occupations September 2010
(also see Putney Debater)


Follas Novas
 Portrait of a bookshop in Santiago de Compostela (3mns)


O Wonderful Photo
 Video diary of a workshop in phototherapy in Lucca, Italy, in March 2010, led by Carmine Parrella


Film & Video

August 10, 2010 Comments Off

DOCUMENTARY

  • Detroit, Ruin of a City
    A road movie about Detroit and the automobile industry, a documentary about making a documentary about a city. By Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz with music by Michael Nyman 92′ 2005
  • Human Wrongs
    A film by Michael Chanan about Human Rights, with Ariel Dorfman, made in 2000.
  • Detroit, Ruin of a City
    A road movie about Detroit and the automobile industry, a documentary about making a documentary about a city. By Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz with music by Michael Nyman 92′ 2005
  • New Cinema of Latin America
    Made for the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, this two-part documentary is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which revolutionised cinema.
  • Logic Lane
    Series of educational films on philosophy (6 x 60mns, 1972)

 

The following links go to my Vimeo page

LATIN AMERICA

  • Roots of Third Cinema
    Extracted and re-edited from New Cinema of Latin America (Channel Four, 1983). For educational and private viewing only.
  • Havana Report
    Report on the Havana Film Festival 1986, directed by Michael Chanan and Holly Aylett, for Channel Four. Festivals: LASA, Boston, 1986
  • Cuba from Inside
    Report on human rights in Cuba in 1988, directed by Michael Chanan, for Channel 4 ‘Despatches’

MUSIC

  • Orchestras
    A Video Essay by Michael Chanan, originally made for a conference on ‘The Art of Management and Organization’. For educational use only.
  • Watching Music
    Documentary directed by Michael Chanan on musicians in rehearsal and performance featuring the Allegri String Quartet and Gentle Fire, BBC2, 1971

SHORT VIDEOS

  • Follas Novas
    Portrait of a bookshop in Santiago de Compostela
  • O Wonderful Photo
    Video diary of a workshop on phototherapy in Lucca, Italy, in March 2010, led by Carmine Parrella.

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