Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Burma VJ

Many congrats to 'Burma VJ', by filmmaker Anders Østergaard, which unveils how a Burmese video journalist reported Burma in September 2007.

And the form still has bags of cinematic license in story telling to go, but Anders points the way.

In 2000 whilst relaunching the form we called this swarming, mass cameras released and then cannibalised for its content