VLVL2 (10) Real life, 202

[Terrance]

Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn
for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United
States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome,
provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear
and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons and other men be
ready to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the
machine-guns and new battle cries of war and victory.

Ah!  to be young and in love with the light. Exempt. Immunity. 

KA is like insurance. What is insurance? 



Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> (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.