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To create an "honest portrayal of war", Dennis combines the two storylines of the mission in Afghanistan and the situation of Nathan Harris in North Carolina in his documentary. Here he uses flashbacks to represent the "disorientation" and "emotional numbness" experienced "leaving a world of life and death" and "coming back to a world that seems mundane and superficial". According to Dennis is there "really just one battle", at home and on the field, rather than two different ones.[8] In another interview he stated that he worked to combine the "ethics of photojournalism", the role of pure observer, with the "narrative of film" to create an "immersive, visceral experience".[9]
The documentary was filmed with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II in its entirety. This presented Dennis some challenges, he especially noted the sound, the image stabilization, the focus and the fact that the camera overheated in about 15 minutes due to the high temperatures in Afghanistan. He built a custom camera stabilizer rig with advanced sound equipment and attached it to his body armor when he was not filming. In addition, he focused the camera manually. Simply switching off the camera helped protect it against overheating. For his filming with Harris and his wife, he changed his equipment so it would be as compact as possible and non intrusive.[4][11] He explained in an interview that his decision to use the Canon EOS 5D Mark II allowed him to combine the "aesthetics of photography" and the "ethics of journalism" with the "narrative documentary" to create an "impressive, comprehensive experience".[7]
There is no music in the classical sense in the film. Dennis used only natural sounds as background music, which he picked up in Afghanistan and in part significantly altered (see musique concrète). A scene in the film, in which a village is secured, is under-laid with actual sounds of war-fighting which were slowed down to 2% of their original speed. This results in a "persistent drone". Dennis used the same drone in the background of a conversation between Harris and his physician regarding the dangers of painkillers. He tries [to blur] "the line between past and present through sound alone". Dennis stated that Harris' flashbacks "often begin with a sound". He was trying to "convey what it feels like to actually have a flashback".[13]
What begins as a simple job for the oddball wizard Shandalar leads to a heart-pounding romp through the fey-haunted Cloakwood and into the fiery depths of Avernus! Do you have what it takes to escape hell? And just how far will you be willing to go to return home again?
Near the end of a six-month tour in Afghanistan, a sniper's bullet "blows half his ass off," as he puts it in "Hell and Back Again," one of this year's nominees for the best documentary Oscar. He is not shy about describing his wound. More than once during this film he pulls down his belt to allow people to see the crater left on his right hip by a bullet, and then he explains how it penetrated to his hip socket, "messed that up" and bounced off to shatter his leg lower down. The first time he explains this, he is sitting in a battery-powered cart in a Wal-Mart, talking to an elderly woman shopper in a matching cart. "Can I give you a hug?" she says, and his smile suggests how much backed-up tension that released.
Harris was lucky not to be paralyzed. He is disappointed to learn that it will take him a year of rehab before he can think about going into combat again. We privately understand his combat days are in the past. Hasn't he paid his dues? He doesn't think so. We don't know him well enough. Even when he was a kid, he says, he wanted a job where he could kill people. That's why he enlisted in the Marines at 18. Now he's done a little growing up, he reflects, and things no longer seem that simple.
Harris uses a wheelchair and then an aluminum walker to get around. He talks about trying again and again to take three steps on his own, falling, and trying again. He and Ashley have a quiet home life that seems sad to me, because if he cannot go into battle, an essential part of him has been lost. There are times, she says, when it's like he's become different man.
I was encouraged to share with the community here our new D&D5e solo adventure, To Hell and Back Again! It's available on DM's Guild and has received a lot of positive reviews and attention! It features a level 1-3 romp through a fey-haunted forest and then through hell itself, with gigantic choices/consequences and big action set pieces inspired by Mad Max.
Since 2006, Danfung Dennis has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal. PBS's Frontline opened its 2009 fall feature… Show more program Obama's War using Dennis's footage. The immersive nature of the footage prompted a flurry of comment and inquiry from the Pentagon, the White House, veterans groups, and viewers and the program was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award. In 2010, Dennis won the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and one of the 30 New and Emerging Photographers by PDN Magazine. Dennis directed and filmed his first feature-length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again, and is the founder of the immersive video startup Condition ONE. His background is in applied economics and business management. Before working as a photojournalist and filmmaker, he consulted small and medium-sized enterprises in Uganda and South Africa. Show less
Even this early in the game, Doom takes pains to force your attention on its backstory, told mainly through holographic projections, video screens, and the occasional environmental detail on a corpse. So far, it's unclear why so much effort needs to be spent explaining a story that boils down to "demon-possessed workers in a Martian facility want to kill their un-possessed co-workers and roam around." The few identifiable characters have so far failed to make any impact except as plot devices. I think Doom would have been better stuffing all of this plot into optional reading rather than cut scenes.
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Dennis embedded with the U.S. Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan and created the documentary Hell and Back Again. The film, which was nominated for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, follows the story of a wounded Marine. Sgt. Nathan Harris' was injured by fire from a Taliban machine gun and then struggles to transition back to life in North Carolina.
"I think it's because we went through such traumatic experiences in Afghanistan that he trusted me, and I trusted him. He showed me the darker aspects of coming home, of being in the armed ... forces. We sort of went through that same struggle of coming back and trying to readjust," Dennis says.
After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Harris' agonized struggle to transition back into a society that didn't much understand what he'd been through became the focus of Dennis' documentary Hell and Back Again, which won a World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Our new residence was a cute little town-home in the heart of the city. We moved in, hauling all the furniture upstairs ourselves, and it utterly destroyed me. I spent the first week at our new home in bed, too tired to get up. The next week we moved the cat into the apartment. He went from being an outdoor cat to indoor only. My husband was displeased about the cat being indoors due to his allergies, but the only other options would have been to move again or re-locate the cat.
My limited energies became ever more focused on learning more about digestive health and health overall. Beating this illness became an obsession. I began making sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables to try and set myself up with good gut bacteria. I learned about eating healthier, the benefits of organic foods, and the nutritional advantages of pastured animal products. While each new fact I learned helped me feel a bit better for a time, it was never long before I sank lower yet again.
Life took on a surreal quality, like I was living in a bad dream. Everything was difficult and took so much out of me. Just getting out of bed to take a shower was a monumental task. My muscles felt like the life was being leached out of them. In retrospect, it was a lot like having achy muscles from a flu, except it was every hour of every day, never ceasing. I was emotionally drained. I felt like a dead person walking, just a shell of my former self. My condition was hard on my husband too and I knew it. In my darkest times it felt like death was inevitable and I was just prolonging the misery. Everyone would be better off without me there dragging things down. One thing that kept me going was all the knowledge I was accruing. If I could just make it out, I might be able to help other people fight against their own suffering. It also helped immensely to know I was working with a good doctor. That together we would solve this.
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