FRAME BY FRAME
86 min
Afghanistan | USA
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, a media blackout was in effect. Radio waves were tightly controlled, newspapers disbanded and photographs were burned in the streets as an example. In 2001, the Taliban fell and a new band of journalists emerged in Kabul. Through four Afghan photographers, FRAME BY FRAME explores the rupture of identity by war, the residual effects of this war and media suppression on a people, and attempts to reclaim a narrative and sense of self through the photographic image.
Directed by
Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli
Producers - Jeff Orlowski, Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli
Exec Producers -
Louis Venezia, Nancy Schafer
Dir of Photography -
Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli
Editor - Alexandria Bombach
Music Composition - Patrick Jonsson
Produced by Red Reel, Rake Films, Exposure Labs, CoPilot Pictures. Distributed by TIME, Inc.
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