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A crime committed by U.S. soldiers assigned to a checkpoint in Samarra, Iraq, is the focus of Redacted. The picture was designed to look as though much of it was shot by Salazar (Izzy Diaz, below, third from left), who hopes to use the video diary to get into film school. Pictured with Diaz are (from left) Rob Devaney, Kel O’Neill and Mike Figueroa. War and Truth by Jim Hemphill War is a subject that has been on director Brian De Palma’s mind for almost as long as he’s been making movies. His early features Greetings and Hi, Mom! satirically referenced Vietnam, and Casualties of War examined the moral pressures war places on those who wage it. De Palma returns to this theme with Redacted, a drama set in Iraq that incorporates many visual perspectives. Shot by Jonathon Cliff, the picture appropriates the styles of cable news and documentaries, surveillance footage, and the Web to tell the story of two American soldiers who brutally murder an Iraqi family as their fellow soldiers stand by, unable or unwilling to halt the carnage. One of these witnesses, Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), is an aspiring filmmaker who has joined the military to shoot a grunt’s-eye view of the war, material he hopes will get him into film school. A great deal of Redacted plays as though it was taken from Salazar’s video journal, and is therefore shot from his POV. “The war has been redacted from the major media,” observes De Palma. “We don’t see the carnage, we don’t see the innocent civilians killed. You can only find that footage on the Internet. “That’s what the architects of this war learned from Vietnam: get it off the mainstream media. And the mainstream media cooperated with them. It comes down to the old question, ‘Where are the pictures?’ [With Redacted], I’m trying to make the audience aware of the medium through which they’re seeing this so-called information. We just assume what we see on network news is real, and that’s the great misconception. All of these images are manipulated and are basically some type of propaganda for one side or the other.” When De Palma first heard about the crime upon which Redacted 22 December 2007 Redacted photos courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - December 2007

American Cinematgrapher - December 2007
Contents
Editor's Note
DVD Playback
Production Slate
Irretrievable Deeds
Blood on the Streets
Fantastic Voyage
Promise Fulfilled
Short Takes
Post Focus
Tomorrow's Technology
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
2007 AC Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
American Cinematographer - December 2007 - Intro
American Cinematographer - December 2007 - American Cinematgrapher - December 2007
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American Cinematographer - December 2007 - Editor's Note
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American Cinematographer - December 2007 - ASC Membership Roster
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American Cinematographer - December 2007 - ASC Close-Up
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