PUTNEY DEBATER
A personal blog
Back from Chile
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 a quick report on the trip.
¡Protest Chile!
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 and rebellion: the Middle East
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 whatever angle, for two reasons. First, because it covers many of the questions that people have been asking about the role of the social media in fomenting the revolutions in the Middle East, and of social movements everywhere. And second, because it does so without the unctuous commentary or tendentious presenter that remains obligatory on our own television channels, but entirely in the voices of participants themselves: reporting from Tunisia and Egypt, with a postscript from Libya, Hamdan seeks out people who filmed some of the key mobile phone videos that helped to galvanise the uprisings, and interviews them in the places where they did their filming as they tell us how they did it.