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Up Against the Wall
Thursday November 19, 2009 at 8 pm on CBC-TV
Twenty years ago, the world watched, spellbound, as the Berlin Wall
came down. In the hopeful euphoria that followed, it seemed as if
walls would be a thing of the past. Coinciding with the arrival of
economic globalization, it looked like people and goods would finally
be able to move freely across borders worldwide.
But then 9/11 happened and, as they say, "everything changed". In the
post-9/11 world, "national security" became the watchword, and it soon
became clear that walls ? and sophisticated new, hi-tech versions at
that - were back with a vengeance. In fact, they were proliferating
all around the world, with over a dozen new walls going up since the
Berlin Wall came down.
Up Against the Wall, produced by Gail McIntyre, and written and
directed by documentary filmmaker Eileen Thalenberg, looks at this
growing phenomenon of new wall-building, focusing on three hot spots
around the world, where extremely controversial walls have gone up.
Thalenberg travels along the huge expanse (and expense!) of the
Tortilla Wall that the United States is constructing along its
border with Mexico. She also explores both sides of the elaborate wall
and fence system Israel has built between itself and the West Bank.
And, finally, Thalenberg journeys to the autonomous Spanish cities of
Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of Morocco. The walls surrounding those
little-known European enclaves in Africa give us a glimpse into the
new "Fortress Europe". With those walls blocking entry into Europe,
desperate Africans risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in
flimsy boats provided by human traffickers. As Thalenberg reveals,
they often wind up, by the thousands, in detention camps across
Europe. Most are eventually sent home.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was an act of freedom, symbolizing the
triumph of democracy over totalitarianism. "The great irony," says
Thalenberg, "is that the three new walls we focus on in the film were
all constructed by democracies. What we found repeatedly was that
walls have a stated agenda and a hidden one. Walls are often built in
the name of national security, but the real reason is to keep people
out, though, of course, nobody much wants to say that."
In a traumatized post 9/11 world, a wall is an easy sell. It gives the
impression that something is being done to protect people. In fact,
walls are an expression of what is most primitive in us all ? the fear
of "the other".
"In the short term a wall may address some of those problems," says
Thalenberg. "But we found that in the longer term, in each case, there
were unexpected, sometimes alarming impacts. Very often the wall made
things worse."
Up Against the Wall poses the questions: Do walls, in fact, work? What
are the real costs both in financial and human terms? How do walls
affect people living on both sides? The film also explores the themes
of borders, sovereignty, migration and human rights.
The experience of making the film turned out to be one of the most
difficult of Thalenbergs career for personal reasons. "I started my
own life in a refugee camp with my parents, and here I was filming in
refugee and detention camps. At a camp in Sicily we met an Ethiopian
father holding his little girl in his arms and as I stood looking at
them I thought, That was me and my father all those years ago."
Up Against the Wall is produced by Stormy Night Productions III and
6663036 Canada Inc. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation.
Format : AVI
Length : 349 MiB for 44mn 6s 79ms
Codec : XviD
Source : PDTV
Language : English CA
Subtitles : None
Genre : Documentary
Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 970 Kbps
Aspect : 576 x 336 (1.714) at 29.970 fps
Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 123 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz
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