The Uprising, a masterpiece of iPhone cinema

The Uprising is an anthology of videos which were made nine years ago in Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt during the Arab Spring and found on YouTube.
The Uprising is an anthology of videos which were made nine years ago in Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt during the Arab Spring and found on YouTube. PHOTO: RIEN A VOIR/THIRD FILMS
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Apr 07, 2020, 05:58 AM
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Apr 07, 2020, 05:00 AM
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LONDON • American director Steven Soderbergh, after shooting his 2018 feature Unsane with an iPhone, declared smartphone cinema to be the future.

Yet the technology is also a window on the recent past, as shown in the largely unknown masterpiece The Uprising, a 2014 film by British journalist and documentarian Peter Snowdon.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on April 07, 2020, with the headline The Uprising, a masterpiece of iPhone cinema. Subscribe

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