Entries by Michael

A Short Film About Money

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 […]

9 Notes About Digital Cinema

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 […]

9 Notes on Digital Cinema

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]

A Documentary Festival in Cyprus

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 […]

‘Protest Chile’ screening 22 September

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 – […]

“I Like Students’

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, […]

3 About Chile Screening

Friday 29 June 2012, 7.30pm St John, Bethnal Green Screening of ‘Three Short Films About Chile’ with speakers Details: New Voices Festival  

Soundscapes in Maastricht

Maastricht provided a suitably quiet setting for an international workshop on ‘Soundscapes of the urban past’, which covered the behaviour of audition across different forms — radio, film, theatre, plus new audio phenomena like car stereos and audio museum guides — from a range of perspectives, including social history, history of technology, sociology, music, media […]