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Podcast: Interview George Gittoes
Festival Artistic Director Lynden Barber chats with George Gittoes about his sold-out documentary Rampage.
While making his standout 2005 Iraq war-and-music doco, Soundtrack to War, Australian filmmaker and artist George Gittoes met Elliott Lovett, a serviceman who claimed he was safer in Iraq than at home in Miami. For his new film, Gittoes followed Lovett home and found that scary proposition to be true. They hung out with Lovett and his two younger brothers - all of them talented rappers addressing the crime and violence around them. The result is a vibrant and ultimately inspiring film that finds within tragedy the exhilaration of creative expression.
'Buzzing with energy from all sorts of social, musical and street-political directions.' - Variety
FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHY
Born in Sydney in 1949, George Gittoes is one of Australia’s most significant and celebrated contemporary painters. During the last decade-and-a-half he has often worked as both documentarian and a filmmaker. His travels have taken him to countries such as Cambodia, Nicaragua, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, East Timor, Rwanda, Yemen and Congo. For his film, Soundtrack to War (2003/4), he spent 15 months observing US marines serving in Iraq. Excerpts from this film were shown in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
