“Beyond Babylon,” was inspired by neighborhood anti-Iraq
war protests in Hollywood, CA on the same spot where D.W. Griffith
filmed the destruction of Babylon for his silent epic “Intolerance.”
The documentary short weaves past and present to examine the true
cost of war, from 536 B.C to World War One to the beach memorials
of Arlington West where a father mourns the deaths of soldiers in
Iraq. It includes impassioned interviews with Fernando Suarez del
Solar (Gold Star Families for Peace/Projecto Guerrero Azteca), Stephen
Sherrill (founder Arlington West) and Jackie Goldberg (peace activist,
California Assembly member). |