Category: observation
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Black Gold – Documentary about ethiopia and coffee
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst in Paris I was given a coffee due to a misunderstanding between the waitress, a friend and I and as a result this was the first coffee I ever finished. It’s almost a week later and I’ve just been to see the documentary Black Gold which discusses the plight of…
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503 is an interesting protest documentary.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhenever I hear that people are protesting I discount this as bored people keeping themselves entertained but upon watching the film 503 I changed my mind. The documentary is about the protests that took place over a period of 503 days when Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in England…
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Jamaican Gang Culture And South African Drug Culture – Unreported World
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I write this I am happy that I have been to watch quite a few interesting documentaries at the Frontline Club. The two most recent were made for Channel 4’s Unreported World. This is channel four’s “acclaimed foreign affairs series” and covers a number of topics. The two documentaries I watched…
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CCTV, Two Exhibits, one town crier and of course John Bull
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEngland is a CCTV nation with more cameras per capita than any other nation. As a result there is great interest from people like Christian of documentally.com and Our Man Inside and John Perivolaris. Both of them are working on CCTV related pieces. At Parliament Square Christian demonstrated his great ability…