Exodus - first person story telling from the refugee crisis
January 1, 2017 8:39 PM Subscribe
PBS Frontline Powerful film using cell phone video and interviews following five stories of desperation and hope.
From the LA Times: Review - Intimate cellphone footage gives 'Exodus' a powerful first-person view of the global refugee crisis
From the Just Security website:
From the LA Times: Review - Intimate cellphone footage gives 'Exodus' a powerful first-person view of the global refugee crisis
From the Just Security website:
Every year around Christmastime, a few million Americans sit down and watch the original version of “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, when it airs on tv. I thought of the movie’s final scene — the von Trapp family’s climbing over the Austrian Alps to escape the Nazis — while I was watching an advance screener of Frontline’s latest documentary, “Exodus,” about today’s global refugee crisis.
The familiar baritone Frontline narrator is absent from this two-hour movie, directed by James Bluemel. Instead, it’s told entirely by the refugees and migrants themselves, and includes footage that only they could film — hidden inside trucks or on sinking dinghies attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
Is this the same programme that was shown on BBC 2 in the summer? It looks like it from the trailer, and if so it is well worth watching.
posted by antiwiggle at 5:56 AM on January 2, 2017
posted by antiwiggle at 5:56 AM on January 2, 2017
Though I think the BBC 2 programme was three one hour episodes rather than a single two hour one.
posted by antiwiggle at 5:58 AM on January 2, 2017
posted by antiwiggle at 5:58 AM on January 2, 2017
It looks like it is for the most part, here's The Guardian on it.
posted by readery at 6:16 AM on January 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by readery at 6:16 AM on January 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
Moving as always but then in the U.S. we will bar most refugees from entry, much as we did in the period when Exodus ship turned back to Nazi Germany...In the past we had an immigration policy, usually rather picky, but after WWII we also recognized those fleeing regimes for political or religious reasons. But that has not changed our fear of an influx of refugees, and it certainly is going to be even more prohibitive under the GOP control of our nation.
posted by Postroad at 7:58 AM on January 2, 2017
posted by Postroad at 7:58 AM on January 2, 2017
I don't think "The Sound of Music" Christmas tradition is a thing.
posted by Brocktoon at 9:19 AM on January 2, 2017
posted by Brocktoon at 9:19 AM on January 2, 2017
Thanks for posting.
It reminds me that I need to finish "War in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria" which is witness bearing on the experience of becoming displaced, while translating the accounts of Syrian women.
It reminds me that I need to finish "War in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria" which is witness bearing on the experience of becoming displaced, while translating the accounts of Syrian women.
"Through the dispatches of these women, who were trapped amid sieges and fled during evacuations, Mounzer sheds light on the gray zones of the Syrian conflict with nuance and directness. It is a solid reminder of why writers who are intimately connected to the surroundings they are writing about – the language, culture and politics – are uniquely positioned to present stories of displacement." (via Refugees Deeply must-reads of 2016)posted by spamandkimchi at 5:17 PM on January 2, 2017
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