Bagdad Rap"Best International Documentary"New York International Independent Film Festival "Gold Kitte Best Documentary" Festival Voicing Silence, Bangalore, India "Best Documentary" Youth Fest, Buenos Aires, Argentina "Best Spanish Language Film" International Film Festival of Human Rights, Spain "Gran Premio" VIII Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam, Cuba Official site: |
"Art, like children, outlives death"Bagdad Rap by Arturto Cisneros is a documentary about a group of Spanish human shields who felt they had to do something, no matter how futile it may have seemed. But it also documents the voices of the modern, sophisticated citizens of Baghdad, something our propagandistic media failed to do. Pay special attention to the background scenes. There’s a lot of text, with the subtitles and all, but you can always move the slide bar back. Notice the streets are orderly. The cars stop at traffic lights (urban myth no, 872). Buildings are not in ruins. People get on with their daily lives. Notice that Baghdad is/was a beautiful city. |
PHOTO by Reuters Published: La Jornada, 6 March 2007 |
Sorry about the horrific background image. Was hoping for something nicer, but right out of flowers. |