Video Activists from Aleppo and Raqqa as ‘Modern-Day Kinoks’?

What is it about?

Since the start of the Syrian uprisings, video activists have bravely documented what was happening on their streets. This article focuses on video activists from Aleppo and Raqqa. Based on interviews and fieldwork in Turkey and Syria, the author argues that these activists are revolutionaries akin to the Kinoks, early Russian filmmakers of the 1920s, who set themselves to document reality in front of their eyes, as it happened.

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