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...sustain local communities forced to live under restrictive austerity, high unemployment and lack of public services. Locals on Lesvos continue to provide inspiration and opportunity to give meaning and substance to the spirit of solidarity but they operate independently of the state or municipality and rely on volunteer labour and donations. This is why academics, artists...

...sustained by such conventions as ‘don’t look at the camera’. It is the ‘cinema eye’ as objective observer, scientific and male. Both amateur and mainstream films reflect this. Amateur films provide the visual equivalent of ‘oral history’ as eyewitness evidence and Nation On Film provides excellent examples. Amateur film-makers quickly adopted the new...