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Men in Black by U.S. Army Specialist Colby Buzzell

submitted by cybrbeast

1 decade 7 years ago

High quality version here.

The remarkable animated short film above was adapted from Colby Buzzell's book My War: Killing Time in Iraq.

Part of the America at a Crossroads documentary series aired on PBS earlier this year, Operation Homecoming is a unique approach at representing the war. Taking writings from soldiers deployed in Iraq, the producers of Operation Homecoming created a series of visual vignettes, attempting to create a wide variety of visual approaches to the writings and the subject matter. The visual styles range from animation, cinema verite, re-enactments, and CGI graphics.

More films from Operation Homecoming

15 Comments

Powerful.....I love the style this was done in.

Nice post.

Fantastic. Very moving.

Excellent.. love the style and format. Shows what its like 'in the trenches', rather than from the perspective of an 'armchair patriot' back on the home turf.

Isn't this a dupe?

Scratch that, this is much longer (4*) even though it starts the same.

Mgshadow says...

Is there more? this is powerful.

There are more videos at Operation Homecoming (see main post). Though this one is the best of the lot.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Iraq, Operation Homecoming' to 'Iraq, PBS, America at a Crossroads, Operation Homecoming' - edited by calvados

Dupe of this, no?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stylishly-Animated-Soldier-Story-from-Iraq

>> ^calvados:
Dupe of this, no?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Stylishly-Animated-Soldier-Story-from-
Iraq

No that version is 1:31, this is the full version 6:34

*shortfilms

Adding video to channels (Shortfilms) - requested by calvados.

*dark

Adding video to channels (Dark) - requested by calvados.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Men-in-Black-by-US-Army-Specialist-Colby-Buzzell

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Norsuelefantti. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

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