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Conversations About Cinema
Приєднався 22 січ 2015
Conversations About Cinema opens up issues, debates and discussion through film.
Into Darkness: Exploring Other Worlds Through VR
“Notes on Blindness is one of the first great virtual reality experiences”
Thomas McMullan, Alpha.com
This innovative Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive companion project to the acclaimed British documentary Notes on Blindness allowed users to access a world of blindness in an exploratory, user-led experience.
Based on the audio diaries of theologian John Hull who - after being told he would lose his sight in 1983 - knew if he did not try to understand blindness it would destroy him. His recordings form a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, documenting his discovery of a world beyond sight.
Mandy Rose, Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol explains just why this project was so groundbreaking.
Thomas McMullan, Alpha.com
This innovative Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive companion project to the acclaimed British documentary Notes on Blindness allowed users to access a world of blindness in an exploratory, user-led experience.
Based on the audio diaries of theologian John Hull who - after being told he would lose his sight in 1983 - knew if he did not try to understand blindness it would destroy him. His recordings form a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, documenting his discovery of a world beyond sight.
Mandy Rose, Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol explains just why this project was so groundbreaking.
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Audience Reactions to Notes on Blindness
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In 1983, after years of failing sight, theologian John Hull became completely blind. Soon after, he began keeping an audio diary, saying "I had to think about blindness, because if I didn't understand it, it would defeat me," and these diaries form the basis of an extraordinarily unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal that documents his discovery of 'a world beyond sight'. Audience membe...
Conversations About Cinema: Mustang
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Mustang - the Oscar®-nominated knockout first feature from director Deniz Gamze Ergüven - is a heady, emotional and deeply personal paen to female power. This recording is an informal post-screening panel discussion with Shamil Ahmed, journalist from Rife Magazine; Iframa from gal-dem magazine; Adibah Iqbal, social issues editor for Nocturnal magazine; and Noha Abou El Magd, BME Officer at Bris...
Audience Reactions to Mustang
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"A bit of me was changed..." We caught up with some of the audience members at an exclusive Into Film preview screening of Mustang at HOME, Manchester to find out what they thought of one of this year's most talked about films. For more information about Mustang visit www.mustangfilm.co.uk. #MustangFilm
Patricio Guzmán Masterclass at Chapter, Cardiff
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Award-winning Documentary Director, Patricio Guzmán, and Producer Renate Sachse, gave an in-depth masterclass at Chatper, Cardiff, unpicking Patricio's methods and motivations and exploring the significance of his films over the last three decades. Patricio Guzmán was born in Santiago de Chile in 1941. The director of the Chilean trilogy The Battle Of Chile is one of the great filmmakers of Lat...
Video: Patricio Guzmán in conversation at Chapter, Cardiff
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Patricio Guzmán talks about what attracted him to the South of Chile, Patagonia, for his latest film, The Pearl Button, as well as working with political prisoners and the descendants of the Kaweskar indigenous people in this Q&A from Chapter, Cardiff.
Patricio Guzmán on the last survivors of the Kaweskar tribe
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In the 19th century there were over 8,000 people, including members of the Kaweskar tribe, travelling around Chile's vast archipelago by canoe. Within 50 years of the settlers arriving, most of them had died. Award-winning Documentary Director, Patricio Guzmán, talks about his experience filming one of the last remaining members of the Kaweskar tribe, Gabriela Paterito, for his latest film, The...
Patricio Guzmán on filming the prisoners of Dawson Island
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The Pinochet Dictatorship lasted 16 years in Chile. There were 800 secret prisons. Dawson Island was one of these prisons and was used as a torture house for over 700 Salvador Allende supporters. Patricio Guzmán, Director of The Pearl Button, talks about his experience filming the prisoners of Dawson Island. The Pearl Button is in UK cinemas from Friday 18 March. Find you closest screening at: ...
Reflections on Impact of Conflict, July 2015
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In this audio recording, Watershed Cinema Programme Curator Mark Cosgrove and Tim Cole Professor of Social History at University of Bristol discuss the Impact of Conflict season of films.
George Morrison at QFT
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On 18 June 2015, pioneering Irish director and documentary-maker, George Morrison, visited Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast for a special screening of Saoirse? and post-show discussion. Part of conversationsaboutcinema.co.uk / @convocinema
Joshua Oppenheimer Masterclass at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015
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Joshua Oppenheimer joined BBC1 Film Programme critic Danny Leigh for an in-depth masterclass that unpicked Joshua's methods and motivations and explored the meaning of his controversial and boundary-pushing films. Joshua Oppenheimer's films include the BAFTA award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing (2012), and the companion piece The Look of Silence (2014) - winner of the Grand Jury...
Salt of The Earth: An Introduction by Dr Angela Piccini
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Watch this recording of an introduction to Salt of The Earth by Dr Angela Piccini, Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Salt of The Earth is a documentary following Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado who has travelled through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity, documenting some of the most horrific and catastrophic events on our planet. The film, co-dire...
The Look of Silence: Producers' Intro and Q&A
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We are delighted to bring you this filmed recording of an introduction and Q&A session with The Look of Silence Producer Signe Byrge Sørensen and Executive Producer André Singer. Watch this video to hear more about this extraordinary film and its companion piece The Act of Killing as Signe and André reveal the story of both films' production and how they went about releasing them in Indonesia. ...
The Look of Silence: Audience Reactions
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The Watershed team headed to Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the top three documentary festivals in the world, to film audience reactions to the UK premiere of The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer's multi-award winning companion piece to The Act of Killing. Watch this short film to hear more about this seminal piece of cinema and the lessons it can teach us. The Look of Silence opens in UK cinema...
Timbuktu: An Introduction and Q&A by Dr Madhu Krishnan
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In this video, Dr Madhu Krishnan, Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol introduces Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako's Oscar®-nominated account of the early days of the Islamic Jihadist takeover of northern Timbuktu in 2012. Madhu works on contemporary African writing and in her introduction she highlights the historical, political and cultural context of the film. After the ...
The Decent One: Intro by Tom Beaumont
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The Decent One: Intro by Tom Beaumont
Under the Skin of the City Panel Discussion
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Under the Skin of the City Panel Discussion
Timbuktu Panel Discussion - at WOW Festival
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Timbuktu Panel Discussion - at WOW Festival
Selma: An Introduction by Anthony Reddie
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Selma: An Introduction by Anthony Reddie
Selma: An Introduction by Madge Dresser
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Selma: An Introduction by Madge Dresser
Selma: An Introduction by Roger Griffiths
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Selma: An Introduction by Roger Griffiths
Selma: An Introduction by Tricha Passes
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Selma: An Introduction by Tricha Passes
Selma: An Introduction by Edson Burton
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Selma: An Introduction by Edson Burton
Maestro quiero ser como tú
Gran documentalista y excelente presentación, igual admirable el trabajo del intérprete.
Europa europa
La batalla de chile debe ser uno de los más grandes documentales jamás filmados
Excelente presentación de Patricio Guzmán, saludos Desde la Patagonia-Chile.
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Me gustaría aprender de él
Me estoy mirando todas sus películas. Sobre todo los documentales sobre violacion de Derechos Humanos. Leí en algún lado que él trabajó con Chist Marker. Me fascina su punto de vista
belo! Genial e muito terno!
excelente entrevista y que buen maestro!
Que interesante
I'm glad Anthony Reddie mentions that Martin Luther King, despite his weaknesses, was and is an heroic figure. Excellent introduction to the movie Selma.
I don´t understand why you don´t show the scenes. Without it, we can´t follow really deep the conversation.
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definitely catching this!
adore this film
Mr. Oppenheimer is a master. Best praise is to quote him: this is a transcript of part of his answer to a question at 44.42 into the video "... You spent many I think staring into the abyss with these films. Psychologically how gruelling did it get for you?" (Joshua answers the question after showing a scene from the Director's Cut of "The Act of Killing" which he describes as a chunk of the important passage in the two and a half hour version of the film that is missing in the short version and explains why). This transcript picks up his answer at around 50.41 "I went home that night feeling filthy - tainted, as though I had been the channel, or the film had been the channel, the occasion from which this horror had come up. And I went home, feeling awful, tried to sleep, couldn't, after a while fell asleep and had an awful dream - woke up couldn't sleep the rest of the night. The next day, I couldn't sleep, was afraid of the dream that it would come back. The next night I collapsed, the next night I had another nightmare. And that cycle of insomnia and collapse went on for about eight months - And it was difficult - to answer your question. To go into that space, this dark part of what it means to be human and not to flinch and to go in there insisting that every perpetrator I'm meeting is a human being - and that's the terrible, hopeful truth of this situation - terrible because it means any one of us could potentially be the same thing in another situation. If any of you grew up in Anwar Congo's or any of these men's families in 1950s Indonesia, come 1965, you might make different decisions, you would hope so, but you are very very lucky to never to have to find out. ... So it is a terrible truth that all the perpetrators are human, but it is hopeful too, because it means that actually among us there probably aren't monsters, or as Primo Levi put it, "There might be some monsters among us but there are too few to worry about." So essentially, we might be able to build a world where we care for each other better, where the bonds that connect us, which make us human - because we are not human as individuals - as an isolated individual I can't feed myself or clothe myself - like a baby rabbit, I would die for the lack of affection. We are humans from the bonds that connect us, and if we could look after those better, if we could practice empathy, if we could learn to care for one another, and to empathize with one another, even the most remote stranger - the people making the raw materials that go into our skin cream and mobile phones and putting together our clothing, if we could learn to practice empathy for everybody with whom we are connected, and we could learn to think critically and doubt what we are told by authority, if we could teach that to our children, perhaps this kind of behaviour, which should be truly unimaginable, might one day be unimaginable, rather than all too familiar and all too human. ... So it was painful to go into this place, it was painful to deny myself the escapism of saying 'These men are monsters and they just should be judged', it was painful to not give my self the comfort of saying 'My role is to judge them or build a case and condemn them', because after all the role of artists aught not to be that of a court. We aught to be trying to understand, not trying to condemn. We aught to be trying to emphathize - not sympathize. And we should take it for granted that our audiences are smart enough to understand that mass murder is wrong. If we don't understand that, we should get out of this business." 54.03
Interesting and important thoughts on the impact that we all have - in our individual capacity - in shaping and defining our history.