War Work: 8 Songs with Film

Director: Michael Nyman

Year: 2011

NYman with a Movie Camera is a 64 minute feature film conceived and directed by Michael Nyman. The film presents a shot-by-shot reconstruction of Dziga Vertov's iconic film 'Man with a Movie Camera', replacing the original sequences with footage from Michael Nyman's own film archives shot over the last two decades.   Deeply rooted in Vertov's original ideas concerned with 'the Perception of Truth', the documentation of 'life as it is' and that of 'life caught unawares', Nyman's film attempts to capture the essence of 'what is there', and reflects on what he calls the Persistence of glance, a multi-sensorial experience of time as it occurs, of life as it happens and as recorded by the human memory. The film is a modern-day take on experimental documentary film making through the bias of cinematographic collage. It proposes to renew a discourse with the ideological and aesthetic precepts once defended by Vertov in his pursuit of the ultimate 'cleaning up' of film language from the 'corrupting influence' of Drama.

Director: Michael Nyman

Year: 2010

The film is part of 'CINE OPERA', a series over 50 videoworks and cinematographic records shot in various part of the world by Michael Nyman during the last fifteen years. In Moscow 11:19.31, the camera observes, somewhat objectively, from the view point of Michael Nyman, the interviewee and celebrity, the proceeding of an interview in a Moscow radio station. His answers, always triggered by some sort of hesitation, are replaced by his own music: 'La Debarcadère' from 'La Traversee de Paris' (1989).

Director: Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak

Year: 2026

The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist/cameraman as told through thirteen years of personal archives across revolutions, war and exile. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2026 - World premiere