Iraq in Fragments
Posted February 26, 07 by AlBaraaThis past Saturday my friends and I went to Cinema Village (New York) to see a theater release of a documentary called Iraq in Fragments. The film was more than what I had expected. It follows the story of three people, A eleven year old fatherless sunni Muslim, A Shia Muslim leader, and a young Kurdish Sunni Muslim boy.
Check out the trailer for the film on Apple Trailers.
The Style of story telling was the most unique to what I have seen. It seemed like a real film as opposed to a documentary. They way the film footage cuts from one type of movement to another shot or object that is doing the same movement, keeping the flow of the film very smooth and poetic.
Some things that I want to discuss in this post are: The camera, editing, footage shot, people in the film, as well as other things so that the stuff can be used to our benefit when we make some films.
Let the responses begin 
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AlBaraa Says: 26.02.07 at 9:49 pm
To start off, James Longly, the one who produced the film is a true artist. The fact that he uses no so many interviews and lets the image and the life of the people to tell the story is beautiful. You don’t so called “scholars” giving their two cents every few moments.
The following is his website:
http://www.daylightfactory.com/
AlBaraa Says: 04.03.07 at 12:00 am
To add to the above. The fact that so many artistic elements of photography are used make capture this film.
Watching this film…I’m seeing a difference between someone who is interested in reporter style filming and photography style filming.
Its one thing to follow a child with a camera…its another to follow the child from the height of the child to give his perspective of the environment.
Also, many times people use a montage to express the passing of time. I absolutely love how he uses time laps to show the passing of time.
zee Says: 11.03.07 at 10:50 am
Strange..it seems the producer had more sense at the time then the DOD.
“My guess was that I would have about a year before either a new authoritarian government would be put in power or Iraq would descend into civil war and become too dangerous to work in.”
AlBaraa Says: 12.03.07 at 11:03 am
Many say its already too dangerous to work in. Its amazing how people there are going about thier everyday lives as bombs explode and gun shots are fired a few blocks from where they are.