"Enemy Image" Film - Derby Metro Cinema Sat 18 Feb

[Andrew Johnson]

There will be a table distributing disks and other material following the film:

Enemy Image - Metro Cinema Derby - Sat 18 Feb at 8.30pm

Dir: Mark Daniels
France 2005
92mins Colour/B&W Digibeta

Tickets for Film - £5.85, £4.85 concessions

Access to table from 10:00pm will be free (come up the stairs)

The invasion of Iraq was the most closely documented war ever fought. Lasting only 800 hours, it produced 20,000 hours of video, but those images were tightly controlled, producing a monolithic view of combat sanitised and controlled by the Pentagon. Enemy Image traces the ways us television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms. Comparing footage of Vietnam, including rarely-seen material shot in North Vietnam, to coverage of Iraq and using extensive interviews with veteran war correspondents and news anchors, Mark Daniels demonstrates how television that once revealed the truth is now increasingly used to hide it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485898/