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Evolution of Violence
directed by Fritz Ofner, 1977-; produced by Oliver Neumann, 1976-, FreibeuterFilm (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
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Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mour...
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directed by Fritz Ofner, 1977-; produced by Oliver Neumann, 1976-, FreibeuterFilm (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
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Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mourn their comrades, and a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he's done. While offering a profile of the ongoing violence in...
Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mourn their comrades, and a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he's done. While offering a profile of the ongoing violence in today's society, the film looks to historical events — told through the use of archival footage — from Guatemala's colonial history and place in the global banana trade, to the roots of its 36-year civil war, to try to understand how a culture of violence is created.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Fritz Ofner, 1977-, Oliver Neumann, 1976-, FreibeuterFilm
Author / Creator
Fritz Ofner, 1977-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996, War and Violence
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Copyright © 2011 Freibeuterfilm
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Plastic Flowers Never Die
directed by Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002; produced by Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008), 34 mins
The war with Iraq was the largest mobilization of the Iranian population, achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'a Islam. Martyrdom became state policy. Khomeini made it clear the war was a spiritual one that the people, and not a professional ar...
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directed by Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002; produced by Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008), 34 mins
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The war with Iraq was the largest mobilization of the Iranian population, achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'a Islam. Martyrdom became state policy. Khomeini made it clear the war was a spiritual one that the people, and not a professional army, would fight. It would be a sacred defense; a war of good against evil, of spirit against military might, where a human wave of beli...
The war with Iraq was the largest mobilization of the Iranian population, achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'a Islam. Martyrdom became state policy. Khomeini made it clear the war was a spiritual one that the people, and not a professional army, would fight. It would be a sacred defense; a war of good against evil, of spirit against military might, where a human wave of believers would form a wall of defense against the Iraqis. Over 800,000 people died.
Anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Roxanne Varzi spent twelve years researching and writing about post-Revolution public culture in Iran. As an Iranian-American who was born in Iran and left shortly after the Revolution she found that even though she had missed the war with Iraq it was omnipresent. She spent a year in Iran without a film permit speaking to ideologically driven mural painters, museum curators, war vets and other cultural producers alongside the secular youth who were meant to consume the culture created by the government. The result is an experimental documentary and meditation on the aftermath of the war, and especially the mourning after.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002
Author / Creator
Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Speaker / Narrator
Roxanne Varzi, fl. 2002
Topic / Theme
Revolutions, Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979, Humanities
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 by Documentary Educational Resources
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