DOC: Chechnya Now/La Tchétchénie Maintenant

by Pier Marton | Mar 15, 2015 | Death, Doc, French, Human Rights, Now, Politics, Violence, Wars, Women

Ces premières images ne sont pas tirées du documentaire mais vous donnent une idée de la Tchétchénie d’aujourd’hui.
These first images are not from the documentary but give you a sense of today’s Chechnya.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic

Europe’s largest mosque

Tchétchénie, Une Guerre Sans Traces
Manon Loizeau retourne en Tchétchénie 20 ans plus tard.
Un film avec beaucoup de courage, devant et derrière la caméra.

Chechnya, A War Without Traces.
Manon Loizeau returns to Chechnya 20 years later.
A film with much courage, in front and behind the camera.

Manon Loizeau: “La Tchétchénie est en pleine schizophrénie”

Highly recommended too: Nino Kirtadze’s Chechen Lullaby.

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus