lundi, 16 juillet 2007

ARUNDHATI ROY - WE



In 1997 Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her novel "The God of Small Things". In  ... Tout » 2004 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. The film examines the widely unregarded worlds of Anthropology and Geopolitics in a very dynamic manner, and is probably stylistically quite unlike any documentary that you have previously seen. It covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It is particularly hard hitting when it comes to the United States and western powers in general.

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mardi, 19 décembre 2006

JAPANESE CHAUVINISM

medium_BY_THANOS_KALAMIDAS.9.jpgI have personal issues with words like ‘patriotism’ not because I don’t believe that it is good to love your country but because the line between patriotism and blind chauvinism is very narrow and you never when you have crossed to the other side. I do appreciate my home country and whatever I do my roots will always be there and, wherever I go, part of this country will be in my luggage.

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