This week: following my previous post on the NFB‘s multi-platform project GDP: Measuring the Human Side of the Canadian Economic Crisis, here is an interview with Hélène Choquette, the project’s director and coordinator. The above image is pulled from the excellent photo essay, Poetic Justice – one of Hélène’s own compositions – featuring the young [...]
Documentary Field Notes and Flashpoints: archive
You are at the archive for the July, 2010
PIB/GDP: Une conversation avec Hélène Choquette
An English version of this blog post will follow shortly, with thanks to Tobi Elliott. Cette semaine: suite à mon petit texte sur le projet multi-plateforme PIB: L’indice humain de la crise économique canadienne de l’ONF, voici une entrevue avec Hélène Choquette, la réalisatrice-coordinatrice du projet. L’image ci-dessus est tiré de l’excellent photo-essai “Une chance [...]
G-20 Police violence: No escaping the citizen camera
Pioneering cinematographer Dziga Vertov (the Camera Eye) dreamed of an omnipresent camera, one which could look at reality from all angles and at all times. Could he ever have imagined today’s reality, with everyone recording video on their cameras and cell phones? As Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau says, we are in the age of “tout [...]
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About Magnus
Magnus Isacsson is a documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. He specializes in following social, political and environmental conflicts over long periods of time.
He has been blogging here since 2007.
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