The scenes come from The Dreams of Sparrows, one of several recent documentaries about the war in Iraq.
Shot by a team of Iraqi filmmakers, Dreams is part of an independent, digitally enabled new wave of war reportage. Along with bloggers and independent journalists, Iraq-based filmmakers are transmitting stories they believe have been neglected by mainstream media outlets.
"Americans are missing a lot," said Aaron Raskin, the U.S.-based producer of Dreams who spent a month filming in Iraq.
In contrast to the short clips produced for the nightly news, independent journalists, filmmakers and bloggers tell long-form stories using consumer video and still cameras, computers and the internet, resulting in films like Dreams and Gunner Palace, by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein.
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