Severe Clear is a film based on the memoirs of First Lieutenant Mike Scotti in videos made by him and others from the 1st Battalion, 4th Marines during the start of the 2003 Iraq invasion. The film explores the chaos and complexity of see the war.
Editing
Fraga sculpts chaos into something almost narrative.
Production
Bootleg marine footage becomes legitimate cinema.
Director
Kristian Fraga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scotti carried the camera through actual combat zones; some footage was nearly confiscated as evidence by military investigators.
Released when 'embedded journalism' was still heroic narrative, this helped crack open space for later critical Iraq docs like 'The Hurt Locker' and 'American Sniper' backlash.
US
