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DESCRIPTION:500 MILES TO BABYLON\ndirected by David 
 Martinez\nwww.graffitifilms.com\n\nWednesday May 9\nUC Berkeley\nEshelman 
 Hall Senate Chambers (1st Floor)\n3pm\n\n\n\n500 Miles to Babylon is a 
 one-hour documentary film about  Iraq under U.S. occupation. Narrated by 
 the filmmaker, using footage shot in Iraq during 2003-4, the film addresses 
 the current war not  simply as a conflict over petroleum profits or a 
 scheme to fill a company's coffers, but as part of a larger American 
 imperial project.\n\nThrough impromptu interviews, glimpses of daily life, 
 still photographs, and footage of car-bombs, demonstrations, night-time 
 graffiti artists, and the celebrations following Saddam's capture, 500 
 Miles To Babylon reveals the situation in contemporary Iraq  through a 
 cinema verite lens. More than a simple anti-war movie, 500 Miles follows a 
 journal-esque "narrative of disintegration", showing the initial excitement 
 of some sectors of the Iraqi population after the U.S. military toppled 
 Saddam Hussein, their hope eroding as they watched their country sink into 
 chaos and violence in the months that followed.\n\nThe film ends with the 
 April 2004 assault on Fallujah, when all of  Iraq was rising against the 
 Americans, and includes rare footage  from inside besieged Fallujah, where 
 the filmmaker went with a group of journalists and aid workers to deliver 
 medical supplies and move wounded civilians to Baghdad.\n\n\nAbout the 
 filmmaker: David Martinez is a journalist and filmmaker  originally from 
 Texas. He has worked as a video correspondent in  Aceh, Indonesia as well 
 as in Iraq where he worked with Prothap  Chatterjee (www.corpwatch.org) 
 covering the U.S. occupation in  2003-4. As a filmmaker he has produced 
 several shorts, including a segment  for the 2004 PBS series Visiones, 
 executive produced by Hector Galan  (www.galaninc.com).  Most recently he 
 produced one segment of a film  about music in Sumatra, Sumatran Folk 
 Cinema, for the Sublime Frequencies label(www.sublimefrequencies). Mr. 
 Martinez currently makes his home in San Francisco.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/08/18413039.php
SUMMARY:Iraq Film: 500 miles to Babylon
LOCATION:UC Berkeley\nEshelaman Hall\nSenate Chambers (1st floor)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/08/18413039.php
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