Selected from 350 hours of film archives, the film on Swedish politician Olof Palme shows him in several interesting political situations. I do miss some deeper insights into a few of those situations, but the multiplicity of the film should definitely satisfy a large audience, or new generations.
Two new documentaries: – on former parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the antiIslam Party for Freedom’s Geert Wilders.
The web has had roughly a couple of decades to realize its potential as the channel for radical, subversive thinking or action. This film illustrates the web’s potential as a forum for the much bemoaned voices that seldom gain admittance to the public domain. But the prime feat of RIP in Pieces is the compilation skills of the sampling director-artist.
Daniel Ellsberg, a washington insider, decided to place himself squarely at the centre of a maelstrom that exposed devastating uS national secrets. During the Cold war another renegade, Ryszard Kuklinski, passed more than forty thousand strategic documents concerning the warsaw Pact from Poland to the American CIA. Both men changed the world.