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Insights Into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Contemporary Filmmakers is the first book in English on a little known cinema from a key part of the Middle East. This collection offers critical essays and historical overview of film production in Syria, as well as brings together words and texts from several of Syria's most critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated masters of cinema, including Nabil el-Maleh, Samir Zikra, Omar Amiralay, Mohammad Malas, Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid and Oussama Mohammad. In their own words, the filmmakers offer candid commentary and compelling insights into their relationship with their craft and their struggle to make films in a developing country under single-party rule, where civil freedoms have been held captive to emergency laws for over three decades. This collection offers a rare glimpse at how they managed the remarkable feat of creating an intransigently independent cinema in spite of near impossible conditions.
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Featured on the DVD are films and audio works by Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Joyce Carol Oates, Ishle Yi Park, Paul Bowles, Sherman Alexie, and many others. Special features on the brutal murder of poet Jacques Roche in Haiti; the Casagrande poetry bombings; and a showcase of the winners from the Zebra Poetry Film Fest in Berlin.
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Rattapallax DVD (issue 15) is a fusion between contemporary writing and film. Featured on the DVD magazine are works by Antonello Faretta, Guilherme Marcondes, Taatske Pieterson, Julian Gray, Kylie Hibbert, Avi Dabach, Abbas Saffari, Caecilia Tripp, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ima Aikio & Jason Lam. Special features on Billy Collins, John Giorno Yehuda Amichai, and the death of William Burroughs; award winning animated short films based on poems by William Blake and Sylvia Plath; and a hip-hop rendition of Gertrude Stein's poems by Jean Grae and DJ Spooky. Showcase of the winners from the Zebra Poetry Film Festival
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Rattapallax DVD (issue 17) is a fusion between contemporary writing and film. Award winning films based on poems by Victor Hugo, Pablo Neruda, and Emily Dickinson. Two short animated films from Chile and Spain - one set in a post-apocalyptic world where a little girl is trapped on an island with a madman morphing humans and animals into new creatures. Also, a visually beautiful documentary about the cassette culture of men in the tribal regions of Yemen.
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