Tag Archives: Recession

Going Viral: A Coronavirus Diary

by michaelc Posted on 23 April 2020

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 pandemic impinges on different social and economic sectors each according to … Continue reading →

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The next chapter: Argentina

by michaelc Posted on 3 September 2015

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 intransigence was driving Greece ever closer to … 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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Upcoming Screenings in London

by michaelc Posted on 30 December 2014

‘Interrupted Memory’ at Birkbeck Friday 9 January at 6pm One of the interviewees in Interrupted Memory (Memoria interrumpida) (Michael Chanan, 2013, 116mns) recalls being detained in the 1976 coup in Argentina. She was beaten and raped. She began, defensively, to … Continue reading →

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A Short Film About Money

by michaelc Posted on 28 September 2012

Won’t solve your money problems, but it might make you think about why you’ve got them. ‘A Short Film About Money’ is a spin-off from a longer film I’ve been making with Lee Salter, ‘Secret City’, which launches soon. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFcoelfewXc&feature=plcp[/youtube] … Continue reading →

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Urban riots: the imagery of cognitive dissonance

by michaelc Posted on 15 August 2011

The riots which started in North London, and astonished everyone by spreading so quickly through the city and round the country, have produced massive cognitive dissonance throughout the media—mainstream and social—for which they provide a new and highly polysemic symbol … Continue reading →

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