Standing Army

BAFICI 2010
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Film Information:
Year:

2010

Standing Army
País:

 
Directores:

Thomas FaziEnrico Parenti
Color:

Color
Format:

Betacam
Duration:

75 min

Cast:

  • Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Enrico Parenti, Thomas Fazi
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Enrico Parenti
  • MONTAJE: Desideria Rayner
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Thomas Fazi, Federico Minetti, Enrico Parenti

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Effendemfilm srl
  • Thomas Fazi
  • Via Giovanni Branca, 82
  • 00153 Rome, Italy
  • T +39 33 4894 3523
  • E future_primitive@yahoo.it
  • W www.effendemfilm.com
  • www.standingarmy.com

Synopsis

In 2002, as Argentina was sinking in financial disaster, the US asked permission to train its troops on our territory once again. This documentary focuses on some of the countries that accepted that request, and the bases the Pentagon has been keeping in them for decades. There’s 766 officially declared bases spread around the world, with an annual mobilization of a quarter of a million soldiers who feel right at home: the US brings them its way of life and its comforts there, sometimes at the price of disturbing the hosting countries. There’s even the incredible case of an island in the Indian Ocean where the original inhabitants were vacated –they live in exile today– for a better use of the land. Standing Army explains how the American government uses these bases to display its power; how each war that is won results in new bases on occupied territory, and also how politicians change their discourse when addressing the ones living in them.

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