Country: Belgium, UK
Year: 2013
Duration: 78'
After the first uprising of the so-called “Arab spring,” which took place in Tunisia in December 2010 against the then president Zinedine Ben Ali, the people of the countries involved in the protest have been using videos to document what was happening, even outside their borders. The images taken in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen have generated a pan-Arab revolution that, for the time being, exists only on the screen.
Biography
film director
Peter Snowdon
Peter Snowdon (Newcastle, UK, 1964), after studying French and philosophy at Oxford University, moved to Paris where he worked in publishing, in journalism, and as a consultant for UNESCO. He lived in Egypt from 1997 to 2000. After returning he started shooting documentaries, which participated in many international film festivals, including the one in Edinburgh, the Documenta Madrid, Experiments in Cinema, Écrans documentaires, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Cinema Vérité in Teheran.
FILMOGRAFIA
Two Thousand Walls (a Song for Jayyous) (cm, doc., 2006), Tree Stain Man (Homage to Stan) (cm, doc., 2007), Drying up Palestine (coregia/codirector Rima Essa, cm, doc., 2007), Breather (cm, 2007), Bewick’s Mambo (cm, 2008), Rinse and Spin (cm, 2008), Walking Through Paradise (cm, doc., 2010), La forêt, une fois (cm, doc., 2010), Uprising (doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“This film is based not on a naive belief in the power of spontaneous rebellion to usher in a perfect and just world, but on the incontrovertible evidence that video works. That it communicates an energy that can transform people’s lives. That it can preserve the individual voice without which the largest crowd is worth nothing. And that this call to refuse the humiliation and ridicule that governments heap upon those they govern, and to try and live instead with honour and with dignity, can speak directly not only to the people of these six Arab nations, but to all of us, everywhere.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA
Peter Snowdon
SCENEGGIATURA, MONTAGGIO
Peter Snowdon, Bruno Tracq
SUONO
Olivier Touche
PRODUTTORI
Bruno Tracq, Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins, Andrew McVicar
PRODUZIONE
Rien à voir, Third Films
Peter Snowdon
SCENEGGIATURA, MONTAGGIO
Peter Snowdon, Bruno Tracq
SUONO
Olivier Touche
PRODUTTORI
Bruno Tracq, Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins, Andrew McVicar
PRODUZIONE
Rien à voir, Third Films
