Monday, August 25, 2008

new film on Tibet

I just saw this and thought some of you may be interested. It can be viewed at the URL below.

"'Recollecting Tibet' - Documentaries Memories: Chronicles from acamera: A perpetual History.Over three years from 2005 to 2008, Photophormations worked with theTibetan government living in exile in Dharamsala, India making'Recollecting Tibet'. The Documentary examines and questions thestate of the Tibetan people living away from the spiritual homeland,surrounded by westernization and how tourism has been assimilatedinto their culture. The film travels to Tibet documenting the Chineseoccupation and the current climate of oppression. With religiouspractises being restricted in Tibet by the Chinese and many Tibetanwomen financially forced into prostitution, how can the Tibetanspreserve their heritage? The documentary travels to Kathmandu to hearfirst hand accounts from Tibetans escaping into Nepal each year byrisking their lives on the treacherous journey crossing over theHimalayas. Traversing through differing locations and times, the filmbecomes a visual chronicle of stories and events undertaken by oneobserver and camera. The narration reflects back upon the historieswitnessed leading up to the demonstration in March 2008 and beyond tothe perpetual past and future histories of the Tibetans. [...]Photophormations is a small non profit organisations: aninvestigative team who work in unstable environments around the worldproducing documentary, journalism, photojournalism and promotionalmedia for individual groups, NGO and organisations."Supplied note:"Hello Photophormations has just finished our documentary on TheTibetan situation which has been made over the last 3 years. To watchfilm go to link: [at the URL below]. We worked with the TibetanGovernment and many organisation's like the TYC and TWA inDharamsala. We would like to offer the film for your use in any wayyou wish to help promote the Tibetan situation during this time ofthe Chinese Olympics to help show what is happening in Tibet now. Thefilm has been on-line [at http://www.munen-mushin.com/tibetfilm.html- ed.] for the last 3 days [i.e. since 15 Aug 2008 - ed.], and causeda massive reaction world wide [...]. If you would like a copy [on DVD- ed.] please fill out the attached form [Not attached to thisabstract. However, it can be obtained from(k69hagakure--at--yahoo.co.uk) - ed.] and we can get you a copy. Wehave screenings on 17 differing [sic] television channels so fararound the world from Japan to Canada. [...] - ks."URL http://www.munen-mushin.com/film%20tibet.html

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