Bearing Witness: Carmela Baranowska's documentaries on East Timor

'Working alone with a small camera she became more or less a part of the scenery in Dili at a time when the people in the capital felt so abandoned that they welcomed any foreigner who was willing to try to record some of what the Indonesian military were imposing on them...Baranowska produced two films in 1999 that covered the violent daily life in East Timor, as the population was subjected to a wave of Indonesian military controlled terror to force them to support Indonesia, and, when that failed, to punish the Timorese for supporting Independence, They were shown as two separate half hour documentaries on SBS 'Dateline' and later combined into a sixty-five minute film entitled 'Scenes from an Occupation'.