I asked ChatGPT to tell me the history of documentary cinema.
It gave me a summary of a book Kevin Macdonald and I did on the subject 30 years ago.

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Long train journey home.
Can't decide what music to listen to.
Maybe it's a day for the Beach Boys?
Or Sun Ra?

Projects announced 📢Film makers from across Ireland meet decision makers from across the globe at the 5th Docs Ireland marketplace! Well done as always to Roisín Geraghty and the team Docs Ireland 💜👏

Am in London and very not tired.
Swimming or dancing both considered

'The film is about the past, of course. Something that happened a hundred years ago. Or is it? Is it really about the past? Or is fascism resurgent?'

mark cousins on 'The March on Rome'

See the Edinburgh premiere The Cameo, Edinburgh
📅 May 26, 4pm
+ Q&A

🎟️bit.ly/MarchOnRomeDoc

Train to London today.
Journey I've been doing all my life.

Alice Rohrwacher's #LaChimera is uncategorisable. But it reminded me a bit of one of greatest films I've seen, Nic Roeg's Eureka

Edinburgh now

Apply to be part of our Palestine delegation to Sheffield Doc Fest Sheffield DocFest this year
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Can hardly believe I am going to be talking in the VERY PLACE where I have the thunderclap in my teens, which partly gives this book its title. ROLL UP! Talking on May 23, 5-6pm - with sensational pictures!

Premiere in Edinburgh of my film about fascism and the rise of Mussolini!
26th May, 4pm The Cameo, Edinburgh
If you want to know the roots of the current far right shit show...
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But I also look at great things happening in 1922. Josephine Baker! Chaplin, etc

Once again the Iranian authorities disgrace themelves by imprisoning one of their leading cultural figures #Mohammadrasoulof
8 years? Confiscation of property? Flogging?
Iran has such a greal film and artistic history. The current regime continues to debase it.
Shame on them.

Exciting. He told me about it. Can't wait

**SAVE THE DATE**➡️ Our next Cinetopia DOC Club screening is mark cousins THE MARCH ON ROME (2022)

'The eloquence of this film is invigorating – and educational.' ★★★★★ The Guardian

📅4pm / Sunday 26 May
The Cameo, Edinburgh
+ Director's Q&A

Booking link coming soon... 👀