iPhone Photo Chronicles ~ Screening For Peace ~ |
'A fleeting flicker of the City of Light, this pic? - Not quite!' i hear you mumbling, but yes, it is in a way.
Huddled away here in my favourite mosque of the moving image on a Sunday afternoon, the Les Halles UGC cinema sanctum is telling me the story of a bunch of monks who were mysteriously murdered in Algeria in the terrible civil war of the 90s.
We can be transported so far from home in our minds from the comfort of a plush theatre seat in the name of entertainment, it's easy to forget that these tragedies were and remain real for so many around the world.
This film, 'Des Hommes Et Des Dieux' (of men and gods), if we suspend the underlying folly of religion for an hour or two, is certainly a quietly powerful hymn to peace and tolerance, and the good that can (occasionally) be done in the name of faith. Amen.
(A Paris iPhone street photograph by Sab Will for the 'Paris and I' photo blog)
