This past Sunday The Passionate Eye aired 'Taxi to the Dark Side', winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. This film examines how detainee torture became the status quo in the War of Terror. In December of 2002 an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was detained under suspicion of being involved in a rocket attack on an American base. 4 days later he was found dead in his cell at the U.S. run Bagram Detention Center. It was later discovered that the Afghan militiaman who initially arrested Dilawar was the one responsible for the rocket attack. Director Alex Gibney uses the case of Dilawar as a starting point to establish a chain of command and culpability that extended down from then V.P. Cheney to the Privates who ultimately faced military tribunals. A trailer for the film is posted below.
As a follow-up to my previous post on lighting, note how Gibney uses lighting in the interviews with U.S. interrogators. In these scenes a 1-Point lighting system is used to give the interviewees a literal dark side. One week ago I probably wouldn't have noticed this.
As a follow-up to my previous post on lighting, note how Gibney uses lighting in the interviews with U.S. interrogators. In these scenes a 1-Point lighting system is used to give the interviewees a literal dark side. One week ago I probably wouldn't have noticed this.
Films like this are the reason why I want to make documentaries.
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