By Joanne Laurier:
An interview with James Longley, the director of Iraq in FragmentsMore films on Iraq war: here.29 June 2006
American filmmaker James Longley’s remarkable documentary, Iraq in Fragments, screened recently at the San Francisco Film Festival (see WSWS review; also about.com review here).
Longley’s film, which pays considerable attention to the lives and suffering of ordinary Iraqis, is divided into three sections, following individuals and events in the Sunni, Shia and Kurdish areas of the country.
As the WSWS comment noted, “Longley’s film establishes the disastrous character of the US encounter with Iraq and the almost universal hatred felt for the American occupiers.”
The 34-year-old documentarian filmed in Iraq between February 2003, one month prior to the American invasion of the country, and April 2005, long after, as he describes in the movie’s production notes, “Baghdad had descended into a regime of looting, kidnappings, shootings, bombings, and a deep uncertainty about the future of the country.”
Joanne Laurier recently conducted a telephone interview with James Longley.
Interview on film by Sigfrido Ranucci about phosphorous bombs in Iraq: here.
