The First Movie
Streaming video - 2010
Filmed in a village in the north of Iraq, Goptapa, THE FIRST MOVIE explores and revels in the magic of children’s imaginations against the backdrop of a highly troubled region, where thousands of families have been expelled and been victims of chemical weapons. Life is a struggle for many, with Goptapa's children terrified of war and insecure about the future. Yet their sense of play, creativity and adventure is robust. Acclaimed filmmaker Mark Cousins captures this robustness through a groundbreaking experiment, loaning the children video cameras and encouraging them to make their own first movies. In a vivid, unfolding and engaging way, the film shows how their personalities emerge, how they respond to movies, and how inventiveness... in children works.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
TVF
2010.
2023. - Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).