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Lusztig spent four years researching, shooting and editing Reconstruction. However, she already has a distinguished body of student work. Lusztig graduated with a joint concentration in East Asian Studies and Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard. Her thesis film, For Beijing with Love and Squalor, which she shot in China during her time as a student at the Beijing Film Academy, has been shown at several film festivals throughout the US, East Asia, and Europe. She also has made one short film, entitled Crema Roz. Her future plans include pursuing a Ph.D. in film in London and researching a film...
...cannot be denied that the problems which had their origin in the historic Anti-Semitism of Europe and the resulting Holocaust have been solved at the expense of the Palestinian population. The total number of refugees is in the many millions. The refugee camps are places of hopeless squalor where deep resentments fester among a doomed people with no future. They have been left there for the last 50 years to stew in their fury by governments local and far away, large and small, with little cynical regard for their lot. The massacres in the regfugee camps...
...This squalor was unlike the Hermit. Aside from the junked cars, he seemed to be an orderly man. If he was crazy - which I doubt - his insanity did not express itself in disorder but rather in the reverse, in a rigorous private tidiness of habit. He was not a man to allow something as intimate as his trash to be on view to passing strangers. What was the meaning of the mess in the drive...
...bonds of earth/ and climbed the sky on laughter-silvered wings." The aviation industry, with a sort of corrupt nostalgia, still uses rhetoric about "the freedom to fly." But Lindbergh ultimately became profoundly disgusted with the industry that he had pioneered. He ended life regarding air travel as mere squalor and aviation in general as one of the world's serious environmental problems...
...from reading the American daily papers, one would never know that the policies of successive Israeli governments have imposed apartheid on the West Bank and Gaza. Israelis live in relative luxury in their settlements while many Palestinians live in squalor. Israelis have complete freedom of movement, which is protected by armed soldiers, while most Palestinians are imprisoned in their neighborhoods, and those who wish to travel further must risk humiliation and harassment at checkpoints. And this was the norm during peacetime; since protests and fighting erupted six months ago, the Palestinian condition has deteriorated further. But this is not what...