Which
Way is the Frontline From Here?
Date: Thursday 30 July 2015
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: FADA
Gallery, Lower Ground.
Trailer: Which Way is the Frontline From Here?
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| Tim Hetherington |
Director:
Sebastian Junger (“The
Perfect Storm”, “War”), Hetherington’s ‘Restrepo’ co-director, traces his close
friend’s work across the world’s battlefields to reveal what made him such a
singular talent. The moving and powerful film also illuminates the incredible
risks of the combat journalists’ profession, at a time when they are dying with
greater frequency in war zones.
Films: Restrepo (2010), The Perfect Storm (2000 – writer), Korengal (2014). Cited IMDb, accessed July
25, 2015.
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| Tim Hetherington with Sebastian Junger |
Film Information: written by Lesley Lokko (co-founder FADA Film).
“A fittingly heartfelt film” Little white lies
Which Way is the Frontline From Here? is a tremendously affecting salute to British war photographer Tim Hetherington by Sebastian Junger, his friend, colleague and co-director on the Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary Restrepo. Soon after the release of Restrepo, while covering the conflict in Libya, Hetherington was hit by shrapnel from a mortar blast in Misrata; he died while being transported to the hospital.
“I don’t really care about photography. I’m interested in engaging people with ideas and views of the world,” Tim Hetherington once said. Cited, British Journal of Photography, accessed June 25, 2015.
The film is much more than a chronicle of a
life and a brilliant ten-year career cut short at age 40. It’s also a strangely
beautiful insight into one man’s distinctive way of looking at and experiencing
war. A traveler by nature after an upbringing punctuated by frequent moves,
Hetherington was drawn to photojournalism by the idea of 'telling stories in
pictures.'
In this way, as in many others, he was ahead of the curve in
anticipating a post-print future and embracing multimedia. Unlike many in his
field, Hetherington was not a combat-adrenaline junkie. While he frequently
found himself on the front lines – in Liberia and other West African countries,
as well as Afghanistan and Libya – he was more interested in the human face and
societal devastation of conflict than in the action shots.
What emerges throughout this poignant
documentary is an appreciation of the way Hetherington's work as a skilled
photographer was inseparable from his position as a humanitarian. Every single
one of us at FADA is involved in one way or another with the creative arts: in
a time when science and technology dominate the agenda in terms of education
and employment, this is a very powerful film that reminds us, yet again, of the
power of art in its broadest definition, to alter, magnify and deepen the way
we think and live.
“ A moving requiem…visceral” Variety.
The
life and time of British war Photographer Tim Hetherington
Mr Hetherington, 40, was born in Birkenhead,
Merseyside, and went to Stonyhurst College near Preston, Lancashire, before
studying literature at Oxford University. Living in New York, he had dual
British and American nationality and had been covering conflict zones in
countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone since the late 1990s.
Best known for
his work in Afghanistan, in 2007 he won the prestigious World Press Photo of
the Year Award. His time there also led to his creation of the 2010
Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo which won the Grand Jury Prize for best
documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
The photographer, whose first job was as a
trainee at the Big Issue in London, also made short films about the soldiers he
met in Korengal and released a book of pictures called Infidel. When he died he
was working on a multimedia project to highlight humanitarian issues during
time of war and conflict. At the time of his death school friend Adrian O'Donnell
said: “He was very popular, good at rugby and a bright and determined student
who got accepted to Oxford. “He was that guy that always took an interest in
what was going on in the world and was passionate about music and literature.
He was a natural leader and a kind friend.” Cited The Telegraph, accessed July 21, 2015
Follow provided link. Cited BBC, accessed July 25, 2015.
About
the director: Sebastian Junger.
Co-director of the Oscar nominated film Restrepo.
Is being a filmmaker a natural progression for you after becoming a
best-selling author, than an award-winning journalist? Cited
Twitch, accessed June 25, 2015.
Birthdate
Born on November 30, 1999
Short Description
Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of THE PERFECT
STORM, A DEATH IN BELMONT and WAR.
Personal
Information
Sebastian Junger is the internationally
acclaimed, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont and
Fire. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News,
he has covered major international news stories in Liberia, Sierra Leone and
other places around the globe. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award and
an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. Junger became a fixture in the national
media when, as a first-time author, he commanded The New York Times best-seller
list for more than three years with The Perfect Storm, which later set sales
records and became a major motion picture from Warner Bros.
For over a year, Junger and photojournalist Tim
Hetherington embedded with Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat
Team, in the remote and heavily contested Korengal valley of eastern
Afghanistan. Reporting on the war from the soldiers’ perspective, Junger spent
weeks at a time at a remote outpost that saw more combat than almost anywhere
else in the entire country. The professional result is twofold: an upcoming
book titled WAR (Twelve, May 2010), and a 96-minute documentary “Restrepo” that
won the 2010 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and will air on the
National Geographic Channel and in theatrical release.
His reporting on Afghanistan in 2000, profiling
Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, became the subject of the National
Geographic documentary “Into the Forbidden Zone.” In 2001, his expertise and
experience reporting in Afghanistan led him to cover the war as a special
correspondent for ABC News and Vanity Fair. His work has also been published in
Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside,
and Men’s Journal. He has reported on the LURD besiegement of Monrovia in
Liberia, human rights abuses in Sierra Leone, war crimes in Kosovo, the peacekeeping
mission in Cyprus, wildfire in the American West, guerilla war in Afghanistan,
and hostage-taking in Kashmir. He has worked as a freelance radio correspondent
during the war in Bosnia.
Junger grew up New England and a graduate of
Wesleyan University. Attracted since childhood to “extreme situations and
people at the edges of things,” Junger worked as a high-climber for tree
removal companies. After a chainsaw injury, he decided to focus on journalism,
primarily writing about people with dangerous jobs, from fire fighting to
commercial fishing (which led, of course, to The Perfect Storm). Cited Facebook
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