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Iraqi Short Films

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

Iraqi Short Films
País:

Argentina 
Director:

Mauro Andrizzi

Color:

Color + B&W
Format:

Video: Digibeta
Duration:

94 min
Cast:
    Production:
    • DIRECCIÓN: Mauro Andrizzi
    • MONTAJE: Mauro Andrizzi, Francisco J. Vazquez Murillo
    • PRODUCCIÓN: Mono Films, Mauro Andrizzi

    Synopsis

    The question of how to narrate a war today brings up another question, which comes immediately after that one: what is there to do in the face of TV's thirst for blood and the uncontrollable amount of images offered by the web? This leads to think about what film is today, but in Iraqi Short Films it triggers the idea of "invasion", for the invasion of American and British forces in Iraq here finds its continuity in the invasion of images. And that's where Mauro Andrizzi offers a point of view that gives privilege to material downloaded from the web, including from what the soldiers themselves recorded on their cell phones to parodies done by them and shot on consumer cameras, from propaganda material to attacks recorded in real time, intersected by texts that dialogue with each other, arguing with those images and sounds, paradoxically home-made for a global conflict. Thus, without shooting any takes or writing a single text, avoiding an association with television's obscene tendency towards violence but also disdaining the authoritarianism of the voice-over narration that explains what a film could never explain, Iraqi… opens a discussion on the propriety of images and on those who record them and become authorized voices. Maybe one of the paths for the future of political film and film politics is here, drawn in this film.