The Abounaddara Collective is a group of self-taught Syrian filmmakers who produce one short film a week, seeking to provide an alternative image of Syrian society by creating a cinematic language known as emergency cinema. Here’s how they describe their work: “We are filmmakers who have to work in extreme conditions. But our point of view is primarily aesthetic in the sense that we try to translate Syrian society’s conflict using a unique cinematic form. For us, films should burst out like bullets to break the silence. They should tell the Syrian story with great narrative intensity and to make the viewer look at reality differently. Whereas activist films tend to represent events in terms of a Manichean conflict between good and evil, our films put forward a complex, open message, which allows for greater freedom of interpretation.” Here’s one of their films: https://vimeo/111221242
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:19:21 +0000
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