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. 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. 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
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. 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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Chile: Divided Generations

by michaelc Posted on 3 August 2014
This is drawn from from a longer project, ‘Interrupted Memory’, an inquiry into the character of political memory filmed in Chile and Argentina in 2013. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for … 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. Read an accompanying discussion of … Continue reading →
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Chronicle of Protest

by michaelc Posted on 21 January 2013
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