[IMC-Video] Route Irish - Feature Length Doc Now Available on Torrents

[eamonn crudden]

Hi Folks,

Thought this film detailed below might be of interest to various people on
this list. Any help in spreading the word about it would be much
appreciated. It's a global seen through the very local film. I'll put it on
Indy video too when it comes back 2 life. I'm totally non-techie but am
appreciative of the fact that ppl are working on a viable imc video system.

Eamonn

Route Irish will be the first  feature length documentary film from Ireland
to be released and distributed primarily through the use of bittorrent
networks.

Route Irish  was made from a comprehensive archive of material filmed by a
loose network of political activists between 2002 and 2006 and is a vérite
documentation of the emergence between 2002 and 2004 of a broad popular
opposition in Ireland to the US military use of Shannon Airport in the
buildup to, invasion of, and occupation of Iraq. Its title refers to the
name given to the road between Baghdad airport and Baghdad by the US
military, and to the fact that Ireland was and remains the main transit
point in Europe for US troops travelling to the war in Iraq.

The film follows a loose network of politicians, activist groups and
individuals through the story of the rise, fracturing and sudden decline and
disappearance of this movement and retraces the way in which their combined
efforts, energies and strategies served to effectively tear away the Irish
States' veneer of neutrality and non-alignment in the post September 11th
era of the 'War on Terror'. It documents the part played in this process by
a series of ploughshares style actions which took place in early 2003 at
Shannon airport.

It takes the form of an essayistic reflection asking, from the perspective
of one Irish individual caught up in the cycle of protests here, why the
international pre-war wave of opposition to the invasion of Iraq appeared so
suddenly, peaked so quickly, and failed to sustain itself despite the fact
that, in historical terms, all of the predictions of that movement (and
worse) were proved right in the course of the ongoing US/UK occupation.

It has also, because of the progress of political events in Ireland, become
a very strange and surreal portrait of the Green Party pre their elevation
to government in Ireland.

Information on how to download the film is available at
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85188

Screenshots are available at this web address:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84775
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