September 2008
Georgia, Chechnya and the Babushkas: Thoughts on Sokurov’s “Alexandra.”
Joey Horsley
01.09.2008
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Another urgent email from Oxfam America’s Tim Fullerton has just landed in my Inbox, awakening me from the constant Obama-McCain news-stream; Tim is asking for donations to respond to the Georgian crisis, among other disasters. I am reminded that just two weeks ago our constant surfeit of Olympic news was also interrupted – though only sporadically – by reports of violence in South Ossetia. Where? South what? We had barely heard of this region, whose name sounded more like a fictitious location in some Lehár operetta or Walt Disney production. But soon enough we were hearing…