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CAPTIVITY TO FREEDOM
Tech Specs:
1.78:1
Cameras: Canon EOS C300 Mark II; GoPro Hero7, Hero8;
Sony a6000; iPhone X, 11 Pro
Lenses: Canon L-series zoom
Top: Mahmud and his colleague Ziyad speak with camp infiltrators who are assisting with rescue
efforts. Bottom: Mahmud, a volunteer for the Yazidi Home Center, confers with a source to procure
information on Yazidi girls and women hidden in the al-Hol camp.
" [I sought] to tell these urgent stories
and create awareness of the situation,
in the hope that those women and girls
who are still held captive by ISIS can be
saved and reunited with their families. "
film, Hirori replies, " To tell these urgent stories and create awareness of
the situation, in the hope that those women and girls who are still held
captive by ISIS can be saved and reunited with their families. "
Hirori shot most of the film with a Canon EOS C300 Mark II - more
than 90 percent, he estimates - which he paired with lenses that included
Canon's L-series zoom. In addition, he had some smaller cameras:
GoPro Hero7 and Hero8 units, a Sony a6000, and even iPhones,
which could be used when the filming needed to be more discreet. On
several occasions when Hirori documented undercover visits to the
camp to find Yazidi captives, the filming was done from behind the veil
of a black robe, using a GoPro or an iPhone. These darker images, which
resulted from shooting through black fabric, added to the sense of menace
within the sprawling refugee camp of some 60,000 people - many
still ardent ISIS supporters.
A particular incident of contrasting color palettes stands out as an
illustration of the journey from captivity to freedom. In the camp, all
the women are forced by ISIS to wear black niqabs, their faces covered
except for a narrow horizontal slit at eye level. Yazidis do not normally
wear black, so when Mahmud and Ziyad rescue women and bring them
back to the safe house in their village, Mahmud's wife promptly gives
the freed women colorful clothing. In a memorable nighttime scene,
Siham takes all the hated black niqabs collected from the freed women
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