Pictures from a revolution / a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti ; produced, directed & edited by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Meiselas, Susan, producer, director, editor.

Rogers, Richard P., producer, director, editor.

Guzzetti, Alfred, 1942- producer, director, editor.

Eldridge, William, 1955- composer.

GMR Films (Firm), producer.

Docurama (Firm), producer.

New Video Group, distributor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.

War and society--Nicaragua.

War and society.

War photography--Social aspects.

War photography.

Nicaraguans--Social conditions.

Nicaraguans.

Social conditions.

Social aspects.

Nicaragua--History--Revolution, 1979.

Nicaragua.

History.

Nicaragua--Social conditions--1979-.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : GMR Films ; New York, NY : Distributed by New Video Group, [2007]

Language Note:

In English with occasional Spanish subtitled in English, or in English with subtitles in Spanish.

System Details:

DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby Digital AC3, Dolby stereo.

digital

optical

stereo

Dolby

NTSC

video file

DVD video

Summary:

In 1977, photojournalist Susan Meiselas traveled to Nicaragua to photograph the civil war between General Anastasio Somoza García's dictatorship and the Sandinista opposition. Her book, "Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979" resulted from her two years there. Mieselas returns to Nicaragua a decade later to track down the people--guerrillas, Sandinistas, and bystanders--pictured in her original photographs. The people discuss the revolution and how their lives have changed since then. Once photographed wielding contact bombs and marching in the streets, these incredible Nicaraguans now live much as they did before the revolutionary days. The film is also an inquiry into the relationship between the media and the recording of history.

Contents:

Before the insurrection

The body on the hillside

Chilo: "We were afraid"

Santiago: "To carry the Sandinista flag"

The bullet made in the USA

Illiana: "Some people wore masks"

Justo: "That blood is precious"

Bombing the neighborhoods

Augusto: "Only six bullets"

Nubia: "All by myself I buried him"

Maria: "I thought better things would come"

Dionisio: "In my own life nothing has changed"

Juan: "We were prisoners for ten years"

Mike Lima: "We lost the war"

Fear of invasion

Esperanza: "We wanted peace in Nicaragua"

Photographs stop time

Hortencia: "Is this my son?"

Marta: "I wanted to be a tank driver"

Napoleón: "Just one more worker trying to survive"

Bayardo: "It wasn't a war in the style of American movies"

The history of an image

Rodrigo: "The new Nicaraguan"

Credits.

Participant:

Photojournalist, Susan Meiselas.

Credits:

Cinematography, Richard P. Rogers ; original music, William Eldridge ; photo animation & assistant editor, Patricia Kelly ; research, Abbie Fields ; transcriptions, Jorge Guzmán, Mauricio Vélez-Domínguez ; translations, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ; subtitles, Deborah Fortson.

Notes:

Originally produced as a documentary in 1991.

"DVD production partially funded by the Joseph H. Clark bequest and the Central America Fund of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University"--Container

"Docuramafilms"--Dic label.

Special features: Reframing history: Nicaragua, July 2004 [featurette] (12 min.); Interview with Susan Meiselas: Nicaraguan, March 2002 [featurette] (14 min.); New York Film Festival Press Conference: New York, October 1991 [featurette] (14 min.); Insert includes the essay "'Pictures from a Revolution' : In search of the feature documentary" by Steven Seidenberg.

Winner, Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film; Official selection, New York Film Festival; Official selection, Sydney International Film Festival.

ISBN:

0767098625

9780767098625

OCLC:

156855194

Publisher Number:

767685992333

616074737836

NVG-9923 New Video