Best broken stories to be immersed in

Today, I came across this web page from CNN. The latest post of this blog is a poll.

I copied and pasted the information below directly from the webpage.

http://internationaldesk.blogs.cnn.com/

About this blog

International Desk brings viewers into the heart of the largest news gathering operation in the world. Viewers don't come here to watch the news; they come here to be immersed in it. To feel the rush of being the first to know what's happening as stories break, and to leave knowing they've gotten the best and latest information available. The show airs Mon-Fri at 2100 CET.

And here is the latest post:

December 28, 2009

Monday Poll: Flying Fallout

Do you look for suspicious people when you fly?

After you vote, the result appear on the next page:

December 28, 2009

Monday Poll: Flying Fallout

Yes 66%

No 34%

No comment!

Tehran-Montréal

Last month I got the chance to know Nadia. We talked about the interaction between me and the new society I’m living in today. Where do my ideas come from and how do I give form to them. Stories that are still based deeply in my memories from my life in Tehran and different approaches that are the result of my daily life in Montréal. (This video is the result of our talk, made by Nadia for Radio Canada International)

I was 13 when I seriously started thinking about my future profession. I wanted to become a detective. My mom tried to convince me that this job is going to change my social interactions! ‘’Everybody will keep more and more distance from you as they believe you want to look through their affair’’, she added.

I think that cinema has given me a chance to find the answers to my questions. It has helped me satisfy my curiosity about the stories of other people by helping me at the same time to improve my relationship with them. I still think about this specific dream of my childhood. I envy myself at that age and I’m looking for that courageous soul I had at that time. Today I’m a “Filmmaker” in Montréal. Yesterday when I was a young teenager in Tehran, I was bravely calling myself a “Detective”. Did I follow my childhood dream in another way?

here is the link to "Transformation":

http://racines.rcinet.ca/video/159/Transformation-de-Nadia-Zouaoui

Waiting

  In my mother tongue , we have an expression which means confused in a funny way. But in fact it's not always funny. It simply means that you are confused in silence and you don't know why and you don't know what to do. 

  This time I try to let it pass jokingly. It's about two weeks that my life is not as delicious as it used to be. I'm waiting for a lot of responses and most of them are SORRY for me. Tomorrow at 7 a.m , I'm going to receive another YES or No. It's too early but I have to wake up.  If it's once again a NO then I will decide what to do in another animation test...

  

   

    

 

Shadows

On the stage

This is the opening scene of Dom Casmuro + actors + lighting + sound + set.... 

N'Scena's Boat

And encore théâtre

Last summer when I came back from 4 months of intensive work in the wood shop of theatre department at Banff, I wasn't thinking that I'll touch theatre before a long, profound break!!!!. Surprisingly I got involved in theatre once again , this time as a projection designer. I can't deny the energy I receive from the interaction between various elements of a production. I hope to be able to continue experiences of this kind.

http://nscena.wordpress.com/

l'Homme et le Train/the Man and the Train

VERY OFTEN I ASK MYSELF: "AM I A BIRD WHO WANTS TO BE A SOLDIER, OR A SOLDIER DREAMING THAT IT'S A BIRD?"

This is a few seconds of the latest animation I've finished on May 2009. The length of this film is 7 minutes and it's a combination of stop-motion and 2D drawings. It's the story of the interaction between a soldier who is standing guard, the train station he is guarding and the mountains that surround him.

Three years ago I received a call from a close friend who was just expelled from the mandatory military service. That could be a dream for any other soldier but my friend was complaining about being forced to quit there while he was having so much fun with every single second. He told me about the last 3 nights in a raw that he had played his favorite songs all night long for the other soldiers and officers. He added : "But I was giving them a deep joy. I could read it in their eyes."

This animation is inspired by the stories of the soldiers who have been asked to leave the military service because they were writing poems in the evenings!To those who decided to play songs for their officers no matter how late it was at night! To those who believe they are so happy and strong that they can live freely till the end of their lives.

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For me a moving train and its passengers were always dancing very lightly each in their own territory; the passengers in the cabins and the train on its rail. When I started animating it , I found out that a train is revealing its rough scary nature. You feel some moments passing slowly and peacefully in the train. You imagine the passengers being hypnotized by the repetitive sound of the wheels. You start to show and to depict this imagination but the train passes very fast.

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Banff /Daytime

I found the train which was making the big whistle. I was always looking at the top of the mountains to find a trace of it . It was on the ground ,behind the trees in the woods. It was so close to my window. I saw it passing among the trees. It was long.