Trying Again
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
View ArticleWhat’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,...
View ArticleUnlock 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...
View ArticleDetroit 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...
View ArticleNice for swans
Very high six metre tide at 5pm this afternoon outside my front door and round the corner on Putney Embankment.
View Article“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...
View ArticleScreening 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...
View ArticleSalute 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...
View ArticleGreece 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...
View ArticleMoney 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBrexit, 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...
View ArticleQuestions 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...
View ArticleConnectedness
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...
View ArticleCuba 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,...
View ArticleGoing 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...
View Article“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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