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  • Gael Métroz and Dziga Vertov

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor three weeks he had no battery and was unable to record anything but the rest of the time he was collecting 150hrs worth of video for his documentary Nomad’s land. We’re speaking of Gael Métroz of course, a swiss born traveler who wanted to retrace the steps of Nicholas Bouvier. He…

  • Gael Métroz au City Club de Lausanne

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I met, Gael Métroz, a guy who decided to travel along the trail of Nicholas Bouvier shortly after his studies. It was an opportunity to try the seesmic style of interview at the City Club in Lausanne. The idea is simple. Those doing the interview have a laptop with a…

  • Screening: Kosovo, the Valley

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I went to watch an observational documentary called Kosovo, the Valley, about the conflict in Kosovo in 1998. The event took place at the Frontline club in London. The documentary starts with a graphic scene of the aftermath of an attack and takes a look at both the Albanian side…

  • Learning more about Dziga Vertov and his views on cinema

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDziga Vertov is an interesting personality because of his ideas of the Cinema eye. His notion was that with the cinema eye, the Kino Glaz you could capture life unawares whilst being involved in the creative treatment of actuality. After making some quick money by answering some social networking questions I…

  • Jamaican Gang Culture And South African Drug Culture – Unreported World

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    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…

  • A crude Awakening, the oil crash

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat makes a good documentary is the quality of the interviews and how they are put together to inform and educate us on the topic they are tackling. A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash is a perfect example of this. Using a great wealth of interviews and archive material it…

  • Life on earth – as told by David Attenborough

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNatural history is an interesting topic to study although whatching the documentaries can be quite challenging. Today I decided to buy a piece of documentary result and as a result I have struggled to stay awake for over two hours. It is not that I do not like these documentaries and it…

  • Dziga Vertov, the Kino Glaz and Web 2.0

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHow many of you have a digital photo camera and how many of you have uploaded pictures you’ve taken to the web? How many of you have browsed through thousand of stranger’s photographs? I was in a lecture a few days ago and we were discussing jennycam and how it was something…

  • Swimming Birds

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Planet Earth and Blue Planet documentaries have some amazing footage and some great sights. One of those greats sights is that which starts with birds sitting in the middle of the ocean because the wind is too weak for them to glide. You see the superpod of dolphins and a…

  • Henry Dunant and IDHR

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhilst doing my work last week in Geneva I was told that I had to include footage from the Film “Henry Dunant – Du Rouge sur la croix”. I didn’t get to watch the film until today but I enjoyed it. it’s an interesting film for anyone who has been brought up…