Film: The Dreams of Sparrows: May, 2005

“In a makeshift cemetery in Iraq, one group of men diligently chips away at rock-hard dirt, carving out trenches. Another carries shrouded bodies and lays them down for burial. Jagged pieces of slate, with lettering in chalk, serve as gravestones. ”A big man with a blue robe and a set of keys,“ reads one -- some of the dead haven't been identified. You won't see this moving, vivid and revealing footage -- shot after the U.S. attack on Fallujah last November -- on your evening news. The scenes come from The Dreams of Sparrows, one of several recent documentaries about the war in Iraq. Shot by a team of Iraqi filmmakers, Dreams is part of an independent, digitally enabled new wave of war reportage. Along with bloggers and independent journalists, Iraq-based filmmakers are transmitting stories they believe have been neglected by mainstream media outlets. ”Americans are missing a lot,“ said Aaron Raskin, the U.S.-based producer of Dreams who spent a month filming in Iraq.”
[Wired] [Dreams of Sparrows]

Comments

[DebbieM]

The Arab culture invented chivalry? Are you kidding? Although I think it was wrong to show Saddam in his underpants that was Newsweek. The American government did not condone the publishing of these pictures.