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Pictures from a revolution [videorecording] / a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti ; produced, directed & edited by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti.

Title: Pictures from a revolution [videorecording] / a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti ; produced, directed & edited by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti.
Publication: [S.I.] : GMR Films ; New York, NY : Distributed by New Video Group, c2007.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Moving image	Use in library	F1528 .P53 2007	Off-site

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1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

In 1977, photojournalist Susan Meiselas traveled to Nicaragua to photograph the civil war between General Anastasio Somoza García's dictatorship and the Sandinista opposition. Her book, "Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979" resulted from her two years there. Mieselas returns to Nicaragua a decade later to track down the people--guerrillas, Sandinistas, and bystanders--pictured in her original photographs. The people discuss the revolution and how their lives have changed since then. Once photographed wielding contact bombs and marching in the streets, these incredible Nicaraguans now live much as they did before the revolutionary days. The film is also an inquiry into the relationship between the media and the recording of history.

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Genre/Form

DVD-Video discs.
Documentary films.
Documentary.
Nonfiction films

Note

"Docuramafilms"--Disc label.
Special features: Reframing history: Nicaragua, July 2004 [featurette] (12 min.); Interview with Susan Meiselas: Nicaraguan, March 2002 [featurette] (14 min.); New York Film Festival Press Conference: New York, October 1991 [featurette] (14 min.); Insert includes the essay "'Pictures from a Revolution' : In search of the feature documentary" by Steven Seidenberg.

Credits (note)

Cinematography, Richard P. Rogers ; original music, William Eldridge ; photo animation & assistant editor, Patricia Kelly ; research, Abbie Fields ; transcriptions, Jorge Guzmán, Mauricio Vélez-Domínguez ; translations, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ; subtitles, Deborah Fortson.

Event (note)

Originally produced as a documentary in 1991.

Funding (note)

"DVD production partially funded by the Joseph H. Clark bequest and the Central America Fund of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University"--Container

System Details (note)

DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby Digital AC3, Dolby stereo.

Language (note)

In English with occasional Spanish subtitled in English, or in English with subtitles in Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Awards (note)

Winner, Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film; Official selection, New York Film Festival; Official selection, Sydney International Film Festival.

Contents

Before the insurrection -- The body on the hillside -- Chilo: "We were afraid" -- Santiago: "To carry the Sandinista flag" -- The bullet made in the USA -- Illiana: "Some people wore masks" -- Justo: "That blood is precious" -- Bombing the neighborhoods -- Augusto: "Only six bullets" -- Nubia: "All by myself I buried him" -- Maria: "I thought better things would come" -- Dionisio: "In my own life nothing has changed" -- Juan: "We were prisoners for ten years" -- Mike Lima: "We lost the war" -- Fear of invasion -- Esperanza: "We wanted peace in Nicaragua" -- Photographs stop time -- Hortencia: "Is this my son?" -- Marta: "I wanted to be a tank driver" -- Napoleón: "Just one more worker trying to survive" -- Bayardo: "It wasn't a war in the style of American movies" -- The history of an image -- Rodrigo: "The new Nicaraguan" -- Credits.

ISBN

0767098625
9780767098625

LCCN

767685992333
616074737836

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library