Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Orphan DVD with Cartier-Bresson Lincoln Brigade wins award

July 2, 2011
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Orphan DVD with Cartier-Bresson Lincoln Brigade wins award

The Orphan Film Symposium DVD containing the recovered and restored film With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, by Henri-Cartier-Bresson and Herb Kline, was just award for "Most Original Contribution to Film History" at the prestigious Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy. It was the scholar and ALBA friend Juan Salas who, while conducting research on...
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British media reflect on MI5 SCW files

June 30, 2011
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The British media are considering the ramifications of the information contained in the MI5 files on the Spanish Civil War and International Brigades that were released two days ago. Here is a piece in the Guardian by SCW scholar Tom Buchanan; here a segment on the topic from Channel 4 news with...
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Echoes of the SCW in Greece

June 29, 2011
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Echoes of the SCW in Greece

Spanish Civil War scholar Len Tsou sends us the following note from Athens:

While waiting for a solution to sail for Gaza, I went to the rally at Syntagma square during the 48 Hrs general strike. I saw a familiar banner attached here.


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MI5 files released: British participation much greater than thought

June 28, 2011
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The UK National Archives have just released a large cache of records related to the British participation in the Spanish Civil War. From the press release:

More volunteers may have left Britain with the aim of joining the International Brigades in Spain than previously thought according to documents discovered at The National Archives.

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Hemingway remembered

June 27, 2011
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Hemingway remembered

The media are overflowing with commemorations of Ernest Hemingway, who killed himself fifty years ago. Here's Clancy Sigal in The Guardian:

In previous months, he had submitted to more than 15 punishing ECT (electroshock convulsive) treatments at the Mayo clinic, due, in part, to his fear that the FBI was shadowing him....
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Music, vets, Preston at IB 75th anniversary in UK

June 27, 2011
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Our friends at the International Brigade Memorial Trust across the pond send along their press release about the 75th anniversary celebration on July 2 in London: 75th anniversary tribute to Spanish Civil War volunteers British volunteers of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War will be remembered at 1pm on Saturday 2 July 2011 at the International...
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Saura recalls Francoism

June 26, 2011
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Saura recalls Francoism

The legendary anti-Francoist Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, whose classic Cría cuervos (1975) has just been theatrically re-released in the UK, speaks with The Guardian's Giles Tremlett:

Saura, now 79, has little cause to remember his own childhood with nostalgia, since he is old enough to remember the most painful event in Spain's recent history:...
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Controversy around Picasso Exhibit

June 26, 2011
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Controversy around Picasso Exhibit

Picasso's daughter-in-law doesn't like the political nature of latest exhibit at the Picasso museum in Málaga. The Independent's Andrew Birch covers the story:

The new show, "Viñetas en el frente" (Cartoons on the front line), is unashamedly partisan, consisting of Republican posters and cartoons from the Spanish Civil War, and famous anti-Nazi...
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SCW children’s drawings

June 25, 2011
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José Antonio Gallardo Cruz, professor of Psychology at the University of Málaga, has sent us an article he co-wrote with Eva Gallardo Camacho on the presence of musical instruments in the thousands of drawings made by Spanish children during their stay in refugee camps and colonias. Read the whole article here (pdf, in Spanish). Incidentally,...
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In These Times publishes excerpt of Garzón’s speech

June 25, 2011
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In These Times publishes excerpt of Garzón’s speech

The July issue of In These Times features a long excerpt of the speech Judge Garzón gave at ALBA's annual event in New York after accepting the first ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. The excerpt will be available online on June 28.
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