Shooting Under Fire: Documentary Screening with Q&A

Tuesday 20th July 2010
6.30pm for 7pm start

Cost: £4 LIP Member / £5 Non-member

The evening will begin with an introduction to the film by Andy Preston, a LIP member working for Reuters. He will also answer questions after the screening. The cafe will be staffed to serve food and drinks, and discussion afterwards is encouraged. This event is organised by the Shoreditch Satellite Group.

Title: Shooting Under Fire
Director: Sacha Mirzoeff
Producer: Context TV Gmbh, Berlin, 2005
Featured Photographer: Reinhard Krause, Reuters

Synopsis:
"It's easy to make nice pictures... much more difficult to understand the whole story... to find the truth is almost impossible"

This film documents the work of Reuters photojournalists working in the Middle East in late 2004, covering the news: terrorist attacks, suicide bombers, demonstrations, funerals. Reinhard is head of Reuters picture bureau for the Middle East, and we follow him and his team of local photographers in Israel and Palestine as he seeks to cover both sides of the story in this long strife-drawn region, to make sense of events and to tell the story. Made five years ago, it would be hard to say that much had changed since then.

As an important global news agency, Reuters prides itself on its aims of objectivity, balance and absence of bias; indeed its reputation rests on those ideals. This film tests the limits of those goals in, arguably, one of the most politically intractable and polarized situations in the world. It explores what can and can't be published, what it means to maintain that balance. It casts a unique editorial glance on what is 'newsworthy' in a place where death, despair and even oppression are commonplace. - what, in other words, makes news consumers of us all. But at the same time the strength of the images that the team produce day in, day out - and under fire - stand out with a strange, almost incongruous beauty - a paradox indeed.

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