29 March 2007 - The Dilemmas of Documentary Film Making
The ORDINARY lecture on 29 March is postponed to April 12. However, on March 29 all students are invited to a meeting at Fritt Ord /The Free Speech Foundation, Uranienborgveien 2 (5.00-6.30 p.m.):
Petr Lom, philosopher and documentary filmmaker, USA, will give a lecture.
Petr Lom has directed the documentary "On a Tightrope", which is about to be screened at Norwegian cinemas. The film, produced by a Norwegian film company, is about four orphans in the "closed" Xinjiang Province of China. The children are being taught line dancing, an art form with long traditions among the Uigurs, a Muslim minority. This is the first Norwegian documentary film selected to compete in the Sundance Film Festival.
Lom will talk about the dilemmas that arise when making a film in an area where no one is allowed to talk to foreigners about politics or religion...