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Trying Again

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

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What’s been happening?

What’s been happening, at a popular level, in response to the economic crisis? Back in February there was a remarkable upsurge in street protest and direct action in a range of different countries,...

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Unlock the Camps in Sri Lanka

Posted at the behest of a friend, this from Amnesty International on 7th August:   Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the recent war in North East Sri Lanka and living in camps are being...

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Detroit Again

Having made a film about Detroit a few years ago (Detroit: Ruin of a City), my attention is periodically caught by items about the Motor City, like this, over at One Way Street: There’s probably no...

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Nice for swans

Very high six metre tide at 5pm this afternoon outside my front door and round the corner on Putney Embankment.

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“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...

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Screening at the House of Commons

‘Secret City‘, the film I’ve made with Lee Salter about the City of London Corporation, received a preview screening at the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. This is more or less what Lee and I said...

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Salute to Fernando Birri

There was something magical about the first time I met Fernando Birri, who celebrated his 90th birthday a few days ago. I had just arrived in Cuba for the first Havana Film Festival in 1979. Checking...

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Greece on the Edge? The Film

The mood in Athens as Greece approaches the crunch. Click here to view the embedded video. Greece is being punished by the obstinate, pig-headed, anti-democratic plutocracy of the EU and the IMF for...

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Money Puzzles campaign launched

How to make a film about money & debt without money or going into debt? In a word: crowdfunding. Click here to view the embedded video. Find out how and why we’re making a follow up to ‘Secret...

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How to grow a documentary

Click here to view the embedded video. We present a new version of the teaser for our documentary film Money Puzzles. There is no fixed definition of what a teaser is. In advertising it might be a...

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The next chapter: Argentina

The next chapter: Argentina, or, What happens when a country can’t pay its debts? During the six month stand-off between Athens and Brussels, which we documented in Greece on the Edge?, while European...

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What the big media don’t show

Paris 29 November 2015. Click here to view the embedded video. By chance I was in Paris for the weekend. No demos are allowed in Paris because of the State of Emergency following the November 13...

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A chance encounter with Kiarostami

  In May 2005 I bought a new pocket-sized video camera. The next day I took it with me to try out when I went to visit Kiarostami’s installation, ‘Forest Without Leaves’, at the Victoria & Albert...

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Brexit, Labour & the Media

What the anti-Corbynistas are doing is unconscionable. In pursuing their cackhanded coup, they are abdicating from intervention in the process of negotiating Brexit. They wouldn’t admit it, likely not...

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Questions about ‘Money Puzzles

Some questions I’ve been asked about ‘Money Puzzles’, ahead of the first UK screenings in Crewe, London and Liverpool over the next few days. What are the origins of ‘Money Puzzles’ and how do they fit...

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Connectedness

Remember six degrees of separation – the theory that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by a maximum of six steps? Also known as the six handshakes rule. Welcome to the world of...

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Cuba in times of coronavirus

In the face of coronavirus, Cuba is proving to be thoroughly humane, in stark and vivid contrast to the stance taken by the impeached president in the White House. Coronavirus was late reaching Cuba,...

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Going Viral: A Coronavirus Diary

Coronavirus brings globalisation into focus by forcing attention onto the different layers of interconnectedness in our twenty-first century world. As the virus spreads around the planet in waves, the...

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“Some compare what’s coming with a category 5 hurricane.”

Jean Stubbs writes about virtual screenings of ‘Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes’ during the pandemic. Read it here:...

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