Category Archives: Media

Greece, Europe, Undemocracy

by michaelc Posted on 16 August 2015

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/136378322[/vimeo] This film is a chapter from the forthcoming feature documentary, Money Puzzles, a film about money, debt and the fight against austerity. Money Puzzles is conceived as a follow up to the filmmakers’ award winning film, Secret City. Whereas … Continue reading →

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Filming the Greek Crisis

by michaelc Posted on 20 July 2015

Athens, 20 July 2015 Two weeks after the referendum in which the Greek people delivered an overwhelming No to Austerity, one week after the Syriza government nonetheless accepted the terms dictated by Brussels, many people in Greece feel either betrayed … Continue reading →

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Radical Film in Birmingham

by michaelc Posted on 13 February 2015

One of the notable features at the inaugural conference of the Radical Film Network in Birmingham last weekend was the mix of generations, from new blood to survivors from the days of the IFA (Independent Filmmakers Association) in the 1970s. Speaking … Continue reading →

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Loneliness of the Long Distance Propagandist

by michaelc Posted on 1 August 2014

A remarkable discussion has taken place on Meccsa, an academic mailing list for media, communications and cultural studies, sparked off by my previous blog, Behind the News from Gaza. With more than 150 messages in three days, very little of … Continue reading →

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Thinking Creative Practice on Campus

by michaelc Posted on 18 June 2014

The symposium on audiovisual creative practice held at Roehampton University on June 14th, ‘Image Movement Story’, threw up an issue that reflects the incoherence of the research policies that fund our activities. On the one hand, judging from the wide … Continue reading →

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New? Latin American? Cinema?

by michaelc Posted on 7 January 2014

The proper title of Havana’s annual film festival, founded in 1979, is the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema – Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano.  The words mark the Festival’s identification with a movement that was born in the 1960s, in … Continue reading →

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