Finally got round to watching this 'documentary' in Welsh, English and Spanish by Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals, about a year after anyone else. It's got something for everyone - it's loosely based on a road trip visiting the Welsh colony in Patagonia to trace some of Rhys' ancestors. Fascinating, informative, thought-provoking and eccentric.
I really liked the use of split-screen video mosaics to illustrate songs (could inspire some student work by Final Cut geeks?). Also the making-of film shows that a lot of the footage for the montages was shot on digital compact cameras (they look like Panasonic TZ7s). Four weeks of shooting, 80 hours of film, two and a half years editing, and it's only £6.49 on Amazon.
We're going to produce a teaching resource on it for the Film Agency for Wales later in the year.
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