I'm not going to write an angry comment piece this week. It seems to me that most people, including myself, are emotionally preoccupied with events in Gaza and no one seems interested in reading or preaching about anything else. I am also spending a lot of time doing research for an upcoming piece in New Voices Magazine responding to the US Supreme Courts decision in Burwell v Hobby Lobby. 'Murica.
Instead, here are some links to articles I have written for other publications in recent weeks.
I helped cover the Open City Docs Festival for openDemocracy and had the opportunity to see some wonderful documentaries and meet some fantastic film-makers. I reviewed the some of the film's of Israeli film-maker Avi Mograbi here. His films are as brilliant and passionate as the man himself and a wonderful exposition of moral complexity. I interviewed him (with Rosemary Bechler, editor of openDemocracy) here. He did not like the fact that I compared him to Michael Moore and I did not have the composure at the time to explain that I was contrasting as opposed to comparing them.
I wrote a review of two films which document the lives of people society often leaves behind here. The final film I wrote about was Iboga Nights; a documentary about a naturally occurring substance which after putting one through a couple of days of hell apparently rids one of any chemical addictions they may have. The film is a harrowing watch, but compelling nonetheless. The film-maker, David Graham Scott, subsequently got in touch; he is a wonderfully kind man and used the substance to come off heroin himself.
I wrote a piece for New Voices Magazine on the forced-feeding bill currently in the Israeli Knesset here. Ridiculous notion.
Instead, here are some links to articles I have written for other publications in recent weeks.
I helped cover the Open City Docs Festival for openDemocracy and had the opportunity to see some wonderful documentaries and meet some fantastic film-makers. I reviewed the some of the film's of Israeli film-maker Avi Mograbi here. His films are as brilliant and passionate as the man himself and a wonderful exposition of moral complexity. I interviewed him (with Rosemary Bechler, editor of openDemocracy) here. He did not like the fact that I compared him to Michael Moore and I did not have the composure at the time to explain that I was contrasting as opposed to comparing them.
I wrote a review of two films which document the lives of people society often leaves behind here. The final film I wrote about was Iboga Nights; a documentary about a naturally occurring substance which after putting one through a couple of days of hell apparently rids one of any chemical addictions they may have. The film is a harrowing watch, but compelling nonetheless. The film-maker, David Graham Scott, subsequently got in touch; he is a wonderfully kind man and used the substance to come off heroin himself.
I wrote a piece for New Voices Magazine on the forced-feeding bill currently in the Israeli Knesset here. Ridiculous notion.