Apocalipsis de nuestro tiempo (Apocalypse of Our Time)
Ishtar Yasin’s film about the work of the Chilean painter Julio Escámez. Film de Ishtar Yasin sobre la obra del pinto chileno Julio Escámez. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/98076754[/vimeo]
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Politics in Putney
/in Miscellany/by MichaelThis is really interesting. Taken from voteforpolicies.org.uk – a really worthwhile website – try it.
Back from Mexico
/in Latin America, Miscellany/by MichaelNormally I don’t do selfies, but this is special. Back from at the Filmoteca In Mexico City
Cuba in Nottingham
/in Academic life, Cuba, Latin America/by MichaelA short note on the Cuba Research Forum conference which has just taken place at Nottingham, which suggests that international research on Cuba is in good health. Under the as-ever cheerful helm of Tony Kapcia, we heard from speakers of various nationalities, either based in the UK or abroad, and several Cubans, ditto, including, from Havana, […]
Retrospective in Mexico
/in archive/by MichaelThe Seminario Universitario de Análisis Cinematográfico and La Filmoteca de UNAM are holding a retrospective of films by Michael Chanan 25-28 September 2014, Sala Carlos Monsiváis 25 MEMORIA INTERRUMPIDA/ INTERRUPTED MEMORY Dir. Michael Chanan /Reino Unido/2013/116 min. Función: jueves 25/ 16:00 hrs. […]
Remembering Richard Attenborough
/in Film matters, Miscellany/by MichaelThis is how I remember Richard Attenborough—setting up a shot for Oh! What a Lovely War, in a photo I took myself. He’s the one in the hat. The news of his death takes me back to where I started, because that first film of his as director was also the occasion for my […]
Best Docs?
/in Documentary, Film matters/by MichaelWhen Sight & Sound sent out their invitation to contribute to their best documentaries poll, I’m afraid I bottled out, and sent this response. Dear Nick, Thanks for inviting me to contribute to Sight & Sound’s best documentaries poll. I’m afraid the task has defeated me. There are certainly some films which come to mind […]
Chile: Divided Generations
/in Chile, Cultural Politics, Documentary, Latin America, Video Blog/by MichaelThis is drawn from from a longer project, ‘Interrupted Memory’, an inquiry into the character of political memory filmed in Chile and Argentina in 2013. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/102417704[/vimeo]
Loneliness of the Long Distance Propagandist
/in Academic life, Cultural Politics, Media, unZionist/by MichaelA remarkable discussion has taken place on Meccsa, an academic mailing list for media, communications and cultural studies, sparked off by my previous blog, Behind the News from Gaza. With more than 150 messages in three days, very little of it had anything to do with what I actually wrote, and I’ve no complaint about […]
Behind the News from Gaza
/in Cultural Politics, Media, Protests, unZionist/by MichaelWhen the issues become too sharp and the contradictions too blatant, the news media are severely challenged to contain them within normal bounds. They generally try to keep stories apart in order not to have them contaminate each other, but just recently this became impossible. The events in Gaza and Ukraine are not directly connected, […]