Category Archives: Video

Aspects of the documentary image

by michaelc Posted on 29 January 2012

After my rather long silence, an uncharacteristically short post. We gathered, on an unusually warm day for January, at the London College of Communication in Elephant & Castle for the third seminar convened by the Artists’ Moving Image Research Network, … Continue reading →

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What happens when you privatise universities: now on video from Chile

by michaelc Posted on 19 October 2011

The world represented by the mainstream media is still governed by a division into centre and periphery which has been thrown into doubt by recent events—not only the global effects of economic crisis, but the popular protest movements which have … Continue reading →

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We Will Not Pay

by michaelc Posted on 23 February 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20236904[/vimeo] At Saturday’s Progressive London conference, I caught up with comedian Josie Long and Mehdi Hasan, the NS’s political editor, and listened to Unite’s Len McKluskey and False Economy‘s Clifford Singer, plus ukuncutactivists take on Barclays Bank and South London celebrates a Carnival Against … Continue reading →

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Teachers and Learners in Bristol – new video blog

by michaelc Posted on 16 February 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20008781[/vimeo] The repercussions of the cuts in Higher Education are being felt in Bristol, where lecturers at the University of the West of England (UWE) have been forced to take strike action over threats to staffing. Here I report on the … Continue reading →

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Video blogging for the New Statesman: Camera in hand and idea in the head

by michaelc Posted on 26 January 2011

For the last few weeks I’ve been out and about filming moments in the developing protest movement against the unconscionable coalition government and its programme of swingeing cuts in every department of social provision.  The result has been a number … Continue reading →

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