VLVL2 (10) Real life, 202

[Paul Nightingale]

(202.16-18) "The other big ongoing debate around here was over the claims of
film against those of 'real life'. Would it be necessary someday for one of
them to die for a piece of film?"

One thinks of a film like Guzman's The Battle for Chile:

As Guzman acknowledges, much of The Battle for Chile was filmed almost at
random. His crew filmed widely around Santiago during the election of
Allende's Popular Unity government and then through the coup. There is
footage of demonstrations, debates, occupations and military searches. The
crew interviewed workers, as well as incorporating televised interviews with
government leaders and political activists. The result is a powerful collage
of the political turmoil of the period, out of which emerges a clear picture
of some of the political debate taking place within Chile at the time.

Continues at: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/mar1999/chil-m13.shtml

Also: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,791514,00.html

(202.36-37) "The informal slogan around 24fps was Che Guevara's phrase
'Wherever death may surprise us'."

Indeed, one of the film's powerful images is that of the cameraman, in the
words of the voiceover, "filming his own execution". A soldier, shooting a
demonstrator in the street, turns and notices he is being filmed. He aims at
the camera, the screen goes black.