Global Conflicts 1

1:Mother Nature 2:RE: THE_OPERATION 3:Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and The News

1:MOTHER NATURE
Mike Stubbs, UK, 2003
In MOTHER NATURE, Zeke (Zeke Roberts from Hull) is seen chatting with his
mate Paddy close to his home about the impending war: a short, sharp,
vernacular assessment of the current realpolitik _ a corrective to the
general Newsnight gloss.
 
2:RE: THE_OPERATION
Paul Chan, USA, 2002, 27:30'
Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's administration as
wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, RE:THE_OPERATION explores
the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the lives of the
members as they physically engage each other and the "enemy".
 
3:SEEING IS BELIEVING: HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS
Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick ,Canada, 2002, 52'
SEEING IS BELIEVING: HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS shows to what extent the camera has acquired a political and social function. Video images sparked off riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King incident. They sustain the trial against Milosevic, who has been charged with war crimes, in The Hague. They expose social abuses, accompany fund- raisers and set relief actions going.