The Real Real World

Here's an interesting article from Wired News reminding us that little of what we see here stateside is really representative of the horrors of war. Some indie filmmaker types are putting together creatively taken footage of the goings on in Iraq. I've been wanting to see Gunner Palace and they mention some other interesting sounding ones in this article.

Some approaches to filmmaking in Iraq are quite innovative. For Voices of Iraq, two former MTV producers circulated 150 digital video cameras to more than 2,000 Iraqis and then compiled the people's personal stories
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The vivid footage in [the film] Dreams [of the Sparrows] is unnerving, in part because it reveals Iraq as a place that's far more dangerous, complex and difficult to fix than American media consumers are led to believe.