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Voices Of Iraq- A Must See Documentary. filmed by the Iraqis themselves
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Posted 30 October 2004 - 12:48 AM
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| one thing is clear: “Voices of Iraq� shows Iraqi society in all its complexity — one of the first times that a theatrically released documentary has ever done that. For this reason alone, “Voices of Iraq� is a must-see for anyone still coming to terms with the chaos in Iraq. --- San Francisco chronicle |
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| From April to September this year the producers of "Voices of Iraq" - Archie Drury, a former United States marine and gulf war veteran, and Eric Manes and Martin Kunert, two filmmakers educated at New York University - distributed 150 digital video cameras to Iraqi citizens and encouraged them to make their own movies. The cameras were passed from hand to hand throughout the country and were used by more than 2,000 Iraqis. The resulting 450 hours have been edited down to this 85-minute documentary ... With all this overwhelming stimuli scored to the throbbing rhythms of a Canadian-Iraqi hip-hop group called Euphrates, it takes a good hour to begin to notice that the general view of the American occupation being put forth by the speakers is positive - a majority of voices affirm that life under the American occupation, however precarious, is preferable to the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. How much of this is attributable to the filmmakers' editing choices, of course, is unknown. But if this film cannot claim to represent the political "truth" about the war - what film could? - it certainly provides a broad glimpse of daily life in Iraq. --- The New York Times. |
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