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In each issue of Tracking we put together a selection
of new or recent videos that have been sent to CMN for our Archive. The
purpose of this section is to put you in contact with the organisations
who produce the videos as we don't run a lending library. We ask the producers
to give us a review in their own words, so if it is somewhat incomplete
. . . . get onto the makers and tell them you want to know more before
sitting down to 120 mins of video!! - we'll happily publish.
"NOT IN OUR NAME" Has the US really embarked on a war on terrorism? Or are the US, and its allies, the real terrorists? "NOT IN OUR NAME" is a new video documentary which tells the story of the "war on terrorism" we didn't see on out TV screens. It show the strength of the huge anti-war movement,
demonstrated in mass meetings and marches. John pilger, Tony Benn, Bianca Jagger, Tariq Ali, George Galloway, George Monbiot, Paul Foot, Caroline Lucas, Yvonne Ridley, Bruce Kent, Salma Jacob, and many others speak out against the war and argue for an alternative way forward. "NOT IN OUR NAME" launched one year ago in
Decemebr 2001, is produced by the award winning radical film maker, Platform
Films ("The Peoples Flag", Proud Arabs and Texas Oilmen",
The Cause of Ireland") in association with TV Choice, london-based
maker of educational programmes. TV Choice also produces radical films on a range of
other issues. All enquiries contact Norman Thomas or Christine Tongue
at christinetongue@aol.com.
May Day 2001 Tristan Tull is a film student at King Alfred's College, Winchester in Hampshire who together with a fellow student, Martin Watkins made a short film about the 2001 May Day protests. The film follows the protesters into Oxford Circus and covers the six hours of captivity people endured that day. An interesting follow-up was that a week after the event plain clothed members of the Met. travelled the 65 miles or so to try and sieze the 'rushes'. Tristan and Martin are interested in the progress of other such films and if there are problems with getting them screened. Contact: T.O.W.Tull_00@wkac.ac.uk
"Berlusconi's Mousetrap" 120 mins; PAL Uncensored footage from Genoa Anti-Globalisation
Demonstrations.
"Our Words Jump to Life" A Television Documentary about young people growing up in Belfast. When television probes youth issues: unemployment, schools, young people emigrating: it wheels in the experts, teachers, politicians, governement spokespersons, clergymen and perhaps even a few token young people . . . . . but stop . . . . . here is the chance for young people from Belfast to say how these issues affect them. A boring series of talking heads and a few noddy shots? Not in this programme, instead, an expression of feelings and experiences through drama, music, poetry and photography to present an epic programme which spans the pageantry, the celebration and the protest events in Belfast. Young people ctitically and humorously dissect the institutions set up to service them - Cabbages and Kings a song from the young people which savagely attacks the educational system, "Backed up con-clusions, endless facts, classroom whitewash, covering cracks" . The roots of sectarianism are caricaturised by the profiteer, the warmonger, the preacher, the educator, "Spiralling downwards 'till Ireland we come, our words jump to life, defiling the young" they chant. The programme unfolds as we follow a young street poet who gobs incisive, witty comments at our sacred cows …. Ten yaer-olds sing their own song of nothing to do, seven days a week …. A young boy sings of lost innocence in a nursery rhyme with more sinister connotations …. A young graphic artisit becomes a character in his own cartoons as he takes to the road to London and relates his experiences of emigrating …. We are taken on a photographic tour of Belfast by a young unemployed photographer who captures images relevant to him, we see him photographing a graveyard where he spent a year of his life on a youth training scheme writing down inscriptions from gravestones …, four teenagers talk from the street corner where they were brutally gunned down …. And of course there is the obligatory Protestant and Catholic reconciliation weekend …. But with a difference. ….and a pre-emptive strike for the critics who will no doubt dismiss the words of the fifty young people who worked on theis programme because it doesn't 'show the good side of our wee province' ….of course not forgetting British attitudes which are humorously portrayed from the person who "just doesn't understand, well its nothing to do with me" to the British comedians and their anti-irish jokes. Belfast Independent Video, 9 Winetavern Street,
Belfast BT1 1JQ, N. Ireland Tel: 04890 245495
Travellers Title: Pavee Culture: Our Ways, Our Voices. Made by Pavee Point Travellers' Centre. This is a documentary exploring the richness of
Traveller Culture both past and present. It examines areas such as Traveller
language, nomadism, the oral and music traditions, the Traveller economy
and extended family networks. Combining contemporary with archive footage,
the documentary is a valuable resource which can be used to raise awareness
and generate discussion of this often ignored and neglected feature of
the Irish cultural landscape.
Farranree Fairhill Youth Project Title: Horse Mad Made by young people attending the Farranree Fairhill Youth Project in collaboration with Eddie Noonan from Frameworks Community Video Productions. A lovely piece of TV exploring the relationship
between man and horse in the urban context of Fairhill, County Cork.
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