{"id":3064,"date":"2017-11-06T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2017-11-06T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:20:41","slug":"movie-night-screening-3-on-nov-8-national-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2017\/11\/06\/movie-night-screening-3-on-nov-8-national-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Night | Screening #3 on Nov 8 | National Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our third (Conflict) Movie Night is happening <strong>this Wednesday at 7pm<\/strong>, in the Auditorium and <strong>everybody is welcome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The original idea for this session was to show a film illustrating the militarisation of society, the blurring of lines between policing and warfare and between war an peace.<\/p>\n<p>I originally thought about some sci-fi stuff. But reality may well beat fiction: let&#8217;s talk about drones and their unlimited capacity to observe our lives and kill from above!<\/p>\n<p>The documentary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalbirdfilm.com\/\">National Bird<\/a> explores these questions. Find reviews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/apr\/17\/national-bird-review-us-drones-program-tribeca-film-festival\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/20\/a-new-documentary-explores-the-devastating-effects-of-drone-warfare-on-victims-and-whistleblowers\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/goingoutguide\/movies\/national-bird-takes-a-deeply-disturbing-look-at-drone-warfare\/2016\/11\/17\/777591a0-a84b-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html?utm_term=.1d2829592378\">here <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/11\/movies\/national-bird-review.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about drones by reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/lsereviewofbooks\/2016\/05\/13\/the-long-read-a-theory-of-the-drone-by-gregoire-chamayou\/\">fantastic and highly readable book<\/a> or consulting this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/stories\/2017-01-01\/drone-wars-the-full-data\">creepy\u00a0database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See you all on Wednesday,<\/p>\n<p>Yvan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Yvan Guichaoua\u00a0<\/strong>|<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our third (Conflict) Movie Night is happening this Wednesday at 7pm, in the Auditorium and everybody is welcome. The original idea for this session was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2017\/11\/06\/movie-night-screening-3-on-nov-8-national-bird\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}