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Neighbourhood Solidarity in Madrid

by michaelc Posted on 8 December 2015

As elections approach in Spain, the latest episode from our forthcoming documentary Money Puzzles. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/146373683[/vimeo] In Greece last July our camera witnessed the tangible forms of solidarity elicited by the extreme austerity imposed by the unrelenting finance ministers in Brussels. … Continue reading →

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What the big media don’t show

by michaelc Posted on 30 November 2015

Paris 29 November 2015. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/147310542[/vimeo] 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 terrorist attacks, so at midday protestors organised a human chain … Continue reading →

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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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Greece on the Edge? The Film

by michaelc Posted on 17 June 2015

The mood in Athens as Greece approaches the crunch. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/128743275[/vimeo] Greece is being punished by the obstinate, pig-headed, anti-democratic plutocracy of the EU and the IMF for the crime of electing the wrong government, a government that opposes austerity as … Continue reading →

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Spirit of Coutinho

by michaelc Posted on 30 June 2014

This video presents an overview of the work of the Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014), one of the most original documentarists of recent decades, whose films remain shamefully little known in the English-speaking world. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/99022268#[/vimeo] Read an accompanying discussion of … Continue reading →

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