Google Mail - Land Mines A Love Story wins Best Documentary at the AFI Awards!

Land Mines – A Love Story by the acclaimed Australian director Dennis O’Rourke, has just won the award for ‘Best Documentary’ at the prestigious 2005 Australian Film Institute Awards! The film is a compelling anti-war film set in Afghanistan, a country that has become synonymous with conflict. It is also a story of romance and a celebration of life, hope and love.

Land Mines – A Love Story is now available on DVD through Ronin Films. If you are interested in screening the film or purchasing a DVD copy of the film please contact Ronin Films:

Email: orders@roninfilms.com.au

Phone on: +61 2 6248 0851

Or visit the direct link on Ronin Film’s website: http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/1887017/0/2411726459.html

Please also visit the official Land Mines – A Love Story website and help spread the word about the film by signing up to our mailing list or participating in grassroots activities: www.landmines-a-love-story.comhttp://www.landmines-a-love-story.com/grassroots.html

Crang

Mike Crang has been consistently sharp, so I like his stuff... He writes:

"However, we also need to inject some dynamism here – the tourist is not just someone who has a particular cultural baggage or who responds to a given culture of a destination. These two elements are mutually constituting, and from this it follows that both place and person may change, and change the other. For instance, rumours help shape expectations of visitors (Hutnyk, 1996; O'Hara, 2001) circulating, not just in a one-way street from marketers to audience, but among tourists, as in Hutnyk’s description of ‘the endless flow of indo-babble’ (p. 145) about stories told about going to India, having been to India, and so forth."

from: Crang, Dr Michael (2004) Cultural geographies of tourism, in Lew, Alan and Hall, C Michael and Williams, Allan, Eds. A companion to tourism, pages 74-84. Blackwell.
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A Johnson minds his own business

Meant to put this up days ago since I got it from Carrie.

Watch William S. Burroughs Thanksgiving Prayer, November 28, 1986 (courtesy of Gus Van Sant):

http://dvblog.org/movies/09_05/thanksgiving_prayer.mov

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Cristobel's band Los Muebles (The Furniture),

"A few weeks a go we started a campaign called "an ass for Los Muebles" (Un
culo para Los Muebles), in order to created an image for our first album."

Malasya

The Future has already come true

Spend 8 minutes looking at this...

http://epic.lightover.com/

Except for the last minute, where I reckon they shouldn't have bothered with the twee 'perhaps there was another way' routine - it was better just as a scary future pod.

Powered by Mieke.

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty

by Ananya Roy

Uni of Minnesota Press.

Roy she was paralysed by "Rumour", but went on to write her book anyway. Some pics too, and discussion of New Communism. "Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias".
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Maoists views on the French Intifada.

Sketchy Thoughts: The Decision to Impose Curfews and the Prefects
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dora the explorer

dora the explorer hits the bustling metropolis of samut prakarn

http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/

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Mieke's Freedom and Stuff.

So maybe finally I taught someone something about using these new fandangled machines (hardly anything, but you can now get RSS feeds on this TMSI) .

I like the Freedom and Stuff routines..

and quotes like:
"thus: coldplay is all of radiohead's worst songs rolled into one."
and
"either way, i'd have a field day re- staging my rants about the lack of originality of the likes of tolkien, who's fans like to claim it's like totally the most original story line ever and have apparently missed humanity's narrative schtick about the battle between good and evil.fantasy is only for those severely lacking in it".

So, worth a visit, with RSS feed, to - http://andthemiekeshallinherit.blogspot.com/
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