{"id":531,"date":"2007-07-17T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2007-07-17T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T17:57:00","slug":"faction-and-fakes-trust-and-distrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/07\/faction-and-fakes-trust-and-distrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Faction and fakes, trust and distrust"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he director Peter Kosminsky<\/span><\/span> was once a documentary maker. In 1988 he made a film called Afghantsi<\/span><\/a>, about the Red Army\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The film won all sorts of awards, but what I loved about it were the sequences cut to a haunting piece of brilliantly chosen Afghan music. I resolved to track it down (pre<\/span>-Internet=some work involved).<\/p>\n

Except it wasn<\/span>\u2019t Afghan. Or Russian. It was Bulgarian, a song called Pritouritze<\/span> Planinata<\/span><\/span> (iTunes<\/span>). It remains a spine-tingling piece of music – for me at least – but there was not one atonal note of Afghan or Soviet authenticity to it.<\/p>\n

Did he break any rules? No. But Kosminsky<\/span> might as well have chosen any piece of music. As it was he chose – well – a fake.<\/p>\n

He now works in fiction, and his Bosnia film, Warriors<\/span><\/a>, was excellent. His film on the death of David Kelly, The Government Inspector<\/span>, was…artful. And yet that tiny fragment of music (which not even have been his choice) means I arrive at what he does uneasy – ready to be tricked. Not fair really.<\/p>\n

About that time, I seem to recall, someone tried to sell some footage of an attack by Mujahedeen<\/span> on a Russian convoy. The footage had cutaways in, obviously shot from the other side, of the Muj<\/span> fighters charging. They were obviously \u201cstaged.\u201d I wish I could remember who filmed them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The director Peter Kosminsky was once a documentary maker. In 1988 he made a film called Afghantsi, about the Red Army\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The film won all sorts of awards, but what I loved about it were the sequences cut to a haunting piece of brilliantly chosen Afghan music. I resolved to track it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}