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| Standard Operating Procedure (Remember Abu Gharib?) |
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is about a series of
photographs that changed the world, changed the
war, and changed America's image of itself. A
hundred years from now, these photographs in all
likelihood will define the war in Iraq -- in
particular, three iconic photographs taken by
soldiers in the 372nd MP Company -- Lynndie
England posing with a prisoner on a leash; the
Hooded Man standing on a box with wires attached
to his fingers; and the pyramid of naked
prisoners. In his new film, Errol Morris shows
how the photographs served as both an expose and a
cover-up. An expose, because the photographs
offered us a glimpse of the horror of what was
happening at Abu Ghraib; but cover-up because they
seduced people into thinking what they saw was an
aberration limited to a few rouge soldiers on the
nightshift.
Abu Ghraib was a dangerous, disordered place.
Understaffed, undersupplied, under unremitting
mortar attack, but nonetheless, it was no accident
that these abuses happened. The film explores the
context of these photographs. The story of the
photographs. Why were they taken? What was
happening outside the frame? Everybody knew about
the photographs but no one knew what the
photographs were about. Morris' goal here was to
talk to the soldiers who took the photographs and
who were in the photographs -- to understand the
photographs and the people who took them.
Finally, the film is about a group of young people
sent to war. As such, it is a war story, a story
of a cover-up, and a story of how a small group of
lowly soldiers were blamed for policy decisions
and a war out of control. Abu Ghraib was a world
in which almost no one was trained for the tasks
they were asked to perform, where everyone knew
what was going on, and where no one wanted to blow
the whistle. A world in which the rules were torn
up, a world in which law was redefined as
lawlessness. Morris says "My last film, 'The Fog
of War,' was about a person that was at the apex
of power, Robert McNamara. With this new one, I
wanted to make a film about the people at the
bottom of the pyramid, 'the little guys.' A story
that I think the world needs to see and hear."
Sony Pictures Classics In association with
Participant Productions presents an Errol Morris
film, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. Original
music by Danny Elfman. Production Design by Steve
Hardie. The Editors on the picture were Andy
Grieve, Daniel Mooney and Steven Hathaway. The
Directors of Photography were Robert Chappell &
Robert Richardson, ASC. The film's Executive
Producers are Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Martin
Levin, Julia Sheehan, Robert Fernandez. Produced
by Julie Bilson Ahlberg and Errol Morris.
***Winner of the Silver Bear Award at the 2008
Berlin International Film Festival, Sony Pictures
Classics will open the picture theatrically in
select U.S. cities on April 25th and nationally
throughout May. In addition, a book by Philip
Gourevitch and Errol Morris will be published by
Penguin with the release of the film later this
Spring.
Opens April 25h. Rated R. 118 minutes. In English
Language.
For more information, log onto:
http://www.blacktree.tv
Tags : filmmaker reel interview trailer War in Iraq Abu Gharib Torture waterboarding dishonorable discharge |
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Affichage : 4306
Durée : 119 s |
| Standard Operating Procedure deleted scene |
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In the course of gathering material for his
upcoming documentary on Abu Ghraib, Academy
Award-winning director Errol Morris conducted over
200 hours of interviews with key figures. Col.
Janis Karpinski, at the time of Abu Ghraib a
Brigadeier General, was the commander of the
prison and later in charge of Saddam Hussein once
he was captured. Of course, the vast majority of
material can't make the cut and this scene, while
compelling, wasn't in the film when Errol Morris
presented it at the 2007 New Yorker Festival.
Full-length interview with Errol Morris and Philip
Gourevitch, which this clip is excerpted from:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/festival/200
7/MorrisGourevitch
Tags : Errol Morris Abu Ghraib Karpinski Prisoners Torture Saddam Hussein Interview Documentary |
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Affichage : 11282
Durée : 396 s |
| Haiku: The Operating System |
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Google Tech Talks
February 13, 2007
ABSTRACT
This is an introduction to Haiku, an open source
operating system designed from the ground up for
the desktop, inspired in the concepts and
technologies of BeOS. The presentation will cover
the concepts and features that make Haiku unique,
as well as a hands on demo. Credits:
Speaker:Bruno Albuquerque, Speaker:Axel Dörfler,
Speaker:Jorge Mare, Speaker:Michael Phipps
Tags : haiku os beos |
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Affichage : 7511
Durée : 3593 s |
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