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Issue date: 12/5/07 Section: News
By: Tabitha B. Hodges
"If this goes wrong, we'll kill you" is one of the many warnings filmmakers and journalists Steve Connors and Molly Bingham encountered in their interviews for their film, "Meeting Resistance". Connors, who is British, and Bingham, who is American, risked their lives to view and hear about the war from the Iraqi resistance movement who want, more than anything, the U.S. to leave their country or kill them.
Bellarmine rented out a showing room at Baxter Avenue Theaters for faculty, staff, students, and their guests to experience the other side of the Iraq war. "Meeting Resistance" tells the story of the occupied Iraqi people who are fighting the coalition forces to leave their country. Through images of Iraqis killed in gunfire and those that continue to buy military weapons with their own money, Bingham and Connors present a country of people who are angry at the coalition, and who are fighting for their honor as Arabs, Iraqis, and Muslims.
After showing the film, Bingham and Connors are available to answer any questions viewers may have about their experience with Iraqi culture, or their journalism and filmmaking methods.
A choice that Bingham and Connors made was not to know the people they interviewed too intimately. The Iraqis interviewed involved in the resistance against the American-led coalition forces did not reveal their names or personal information and made sure their faces were blurred on tape. This was to protect both the resistance and the filmmakers, who could not reveal any personal information about their subjects if they did not know names or addresses. Instead they used monikers like "The Warrior" or "The Teacher" to give an idea about who they were talking to.
Bingham and Connors were able to get interviews by using their translator and by "going to the neighborhoods, going to tea parlors, smoking cigarettes, and playing backgammon," said Bingham. They did reiterate the fact that they took special pains to cross-reference all of the information they received from their interviews in order to give an accurate account of the actual events and feeling in Iraq.
Although filming of "Meeting Resistance" wrapped in 2004, Connors was in Baghdad at the beginning of October, and believes this is still what the war is about. When asked if they had shown the film in Washington [D.C.], Bingham said yes, they opened the film there the second week of October and "your Representative John Yarmuth has seen it."
"Meeting Resistance" is currently showing at the Baxter Avenue Theater in Louisville, and more information about the film and Steve Connors and Molly Bingham can be found at www.meetingresistance.com.
"If this goes wrong, we'll kill you" is one of the many warnings filmmakers and journalists Steve Connors and Molly Bingham encountered in their interviews for their film, "Meeting Resistance". Connors, who is British, and Bingham, who is American, risked their lives to view and hear about the war from the Iraqi resistance movement who want, more than anything, the U.S. to leave their country or kill them.
Bellarmine rented out a showing room at Baxter Avenue Theaters for faculty, staff, students, and their guests to experience the other side of the Iraq war. "Meeting Resistance" tells the story of the occupied Iraqi people who are fighting the coalition forces to leave their country. Through images of Iraqis killed in gunfire and those that continue to buy military weapons with their own money, Bingham and Connors present a country of people who are angry at the coalition, and who are fighting for their honor as Arabs, Iraqis, and Muslims.
After showing the film, Bingham and Connors are available to answer any questions viewers may have about their experience with Iraqi culture, or their journalism and filmmaking methods.
A choice that Bingham and Connors made was not to know the people they interviewed too intimately. The Iraqis interviewed involved in the resistance against the American-led coalition forces did not reveal their names or personal information and made sure their faces were blurred on tape. This was to protect both the resistance and the filmmakers, who could not reveal any personal information about their subjects if they did not know names or addresses. Instead they used monikers like "The Warrior" or "The Teacher" to give an idea about who they were talking to.
Bingham and Connors were able to get interviews by using their translator and by "going to the neighborhoods, going to tea parlors, smoking cigarettes, and playing backgammon," said Bingham. They did reiterate the fact that they took special pains to cross-reference all of the information they received from their interviews in order to give an accurate account of the actual events and feeling in Iraq.
Although filming of "Meeting Resistance" wrapped in 2004, Connors was in Baghdad at the beginning of October, and believes this is still what the war is about. When asked if they had shown the film in Washington [D.C.], Bingham said yes, they opened the film there the second week of October and "your Representative John Yarmuth has seen it."
"Meeting Resistance" is currently showing at the Baxter Avenue Theater in Louisville, and more information about the film and Steve Connors and Molly Bingham can be found at www.meetingresistance.com.
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