Muita água passou por baixo da ponte e, devidamente transplantado para o norte da América do Norte, começo a ver desde outro ponto de vista a cena de documentários.
No domingo, 17/jan, foram dois docs quebecois, fazendo jus à tradição documentarista da terra.
1) O impressionante episódio de racismo ocorrido em Montreal, em 1969, contado em "Ninth Floor", de Mina Shum.
Sinopse: Shum opens the film with footage of Expo '67 and its impossibly rosy vision of Canada as a land of boundless benevolence and tolerance. But the Caribbean students who came to Canada for their post-secondary studies in the late 1960s were hardly welcomed with open arms -- as one of Shum's interview subjects observes, Canadians are racist, but they feel the need to apologize for it. Not all felt that need, however: Perry Anderson, a biology professor at Sir George Williams, openly addressed his black students differently from his white ones, and according to several who took his course gave significantly lower grades to black students for lab work that was identical to that of their white peers. Those involved took their grievances to the university administration, and, as word got out, protesters from other schools in Montreal arrived in support. After a string of disastrous missteps by the administration, a group of students (as well as some law-enforcement infiltrators and provocateurs) occupied the school's computer department in protest, eventually resulting in $2 million worth of damage and nearly a hundred arrests.
Expertly combining interviews and archival footage, Ninth Floor offers both a revealing look at the shallowness of our home and native land's proudly proclaimed culture of tolerance, and a timely reminder of the importance of civil disobedience, particularly in times when governmental powers go unquestioned and unchecked.2) e a excelente aula de economia proferida em uma longa entrevista por uma das vítimas do massacre no Charlie Hebdo, Bernard Maris, em "Oncle Bernard, L'anti leçon d'économie", de Richard Brouillette.
Sinopse: Economist Bernard Maris, a.k.a. "Oncle Bernard", was killed during the Charlie Hebdo shooting, on January 7, 2015. This fascinating interview with him was filmed in March 2000 as part of the documentaryEncirclement -- Neoliberalism Ensnares Democracy.Frank and unvarnished, this is a true "counter lesson in economics" in which the director gives centre stage to Maris' vibrant, incisive, and mischievous words of dissent. Maris strikes at leisure, unleashing hard-hitting truths that challenge the dogmas that are incessantly rehashed by the vibrant choir enslaved to the "science" of Economics. With his wit, eloquence, and erudition, and his prodigious capacity to distill complex issues and make the most arduous subject matters exciting, "Oncle Bernard" unveils his courageously original ideas over the course of the interview -- ideas that are all the more precious in this era of intellectual resignation and economic austerity.
No domingo, 17/jan, foram dois docs quebecois, fazendo jus à tradição documentarista da terra.
1) O impressionante episódio de racismo ocorrido em Montreal, em 1969, contado em "Ninth Floor", de Mina Shum.
Sinopse: Shum opens the film with footage of Expo '67 and its impossibly rosy vision of Canada as a land of boundless benevolence and tolerance. But the Caribbean students who came to Canada for their post-secondary studies in the late 1960s were hardly welcomed with open arms -- as one of Shum's interview subjects observes, Canadians are racist, but they feel the need to apologize for it. Not all felt that need, however: Perry Anderson, a biology professor at Sir George Williams, openly addressed his black students differently from his white ones, and according to several who took his course gave significantly lower grades to black students for lab work that was identical to that of their white peers. Those involved took their grievances to the university administration, and, as word got out, protesters from other schools in Montreal arrived in support. After a string of disastrous missteps by the administration, a group of students (as well as some law-enforcement infiltrators and provocateurs) occupied the school's computer department in protest, eventually resulting in $2 million worth of damage and nearly a hundred arrests.
Expertly combining interviews and archival footage, Ninth Floor offers both a revealing look at the shallowness of our home and native land's proudly proclaimed culture of tolerance, and a timely reminder of the importance of civil disobedience, particularly in times when governmental powers go unquestioned and unchecked.2) e a excelente aula de economia proferida em uma longa entrevista por uma das vítimas do massacre no Charlie Hebdo, Bernard Maris, em "Oncle Bernard, L'anti leçon d'économie", de Richard Brouillette.
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