ENEMY IMAGE 2 OF 5

ENEMY IMAGE PART 2 OF 5

Enemy Image looks at broadcast footage of wars from Vietnam in the 1960s to the Iraq War of 2003 and shows how US television news can hide truth of military combat as well as reveal it.

The belief that press coverage of the Vietnam War may have lost that war for the America has meant that journalists have had limited coverage to subsequent conflicts in Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Afghanistan. In an apparent reversal of policy, during the 800 hours of the Iraq War 20,000 hours of video were shot. But reporting was tightly controlled by the Pentagon and the images that found their way into living rooms provided only a sanitised version of the conflict.

Daniels took two years to research Enemy Images, which shows how TV reporting of war has evolved - and questions what is seen, what remains unseen, and why.
Mark Daniels has been a filmmaker and cinematographer since 1978. Among films he has directed is Classified X which deals with racial stereotypes in American cinema; it was 1998 Sundance Film Festival selection and won Best Documentary at the Human Rights Watch Festival. He was director of photography on Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, nominated for an Academy Award in 1992, and Nomi Song, a prizewinner at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004.