Canadian filmmakers Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick have traversed the world discovering the frontlines of a new digital revolution. The resulting documentary looks at the sociopolitical uses of camcorders and new technologies. Inter-weaving material from contemporary video archives with original footage, the film addresses essential questions about the risks and responsibilities of frontline filmmaking, the authority of the mainstream media, what constitutes access to media, and ‘who owns the truth’. Screened at the inaugural South African Tri Continental Film Festival in 2003, we just had to bring this important documentary back for the next generation of documentary activists.
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How does each of us watch movies and media? And how does that change from generation to generation? In a humorous, eye-opening documentary that spans the globe, the filmmaking duo visit cinematic landmarks such as: Fellini’s hometown; Riefenstahl’s Nuremburg; Lumière’s first factory; and encounter people with all types of film life lessons to impart. Peter Wintonick, and his 19-year-old daughter, Mira, both filmmakers, trek through the present and future of film and image-making, using significant contemporary and historical cinematic sites and personal encounters as their points of departure. pilgrIMAGE is a trans-generational, cine- genetic meditation on media and its personal and social consequences. From two generational view-points, we are drawn into two different spheres of separate cinematic and media interests, ranging from documentary, fiction and activism, including the internet and nextmedia.
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Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent is perhaps Wintonick’s best known film catapulting him to the head of the class as one of our leading political documentarians. The film explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world- renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, the film highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media. Appearing in the film are major journalists and critics, including Bill Moyers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Tom Wolfe, Peter Jennings, Jeff Greenfield, philosopher Michel Foucault, White House reporter Sarah McClendon, New York Times editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and revisionist author Robert Faurisson.
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