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What Do We Want, When Do We Want It
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What Do We Want, When Do We Want It Synopsis
In 1962 Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote a letter to Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz detailing his deep ambivalence about his involvement with the anti-war movement of the time.
Filmmaker Alex Jablonski uses the text of this letter as a jumping off point to explore the inner-lives of those attending a 2007 anti-war march. Jablonski and his crew erected an enormous white backdrop in the middle of the march and used two cameras to capture the marchers both in the middle of the throng of protesters but also isolated and removed from their context, standing alone in an all white frame.
The result is a film that is as hypnotic and troubling and questions the true motivations of those holding signs and chanting slogans.
Film Credits
Director / Editor
- Alex Jablonski
Director of Photography
- Paul de Lumen
Production Designer
- Kathrin Eder
Camera Operator
- Jon Schwartz
Production Assistants
- Etana Jacobsen
- Silas Howard
Music Composition and Sound Design
- Kento Oiwa
Letter read by
- Alex Jablonski
Special Thanks to
- ANSWER LA
- Birns & Sawyer, Hollywood
- The UCLA School of Film, TV & Digital Media
- and everyone who appeared in the film
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