Pascal Vasselin

Saddam: America's Best Enemy

Pascal Vasselin

Fraser Macnaught

Documents a 40-year relationship between Saddam Hussein and the U.S., through accounts given by those who were witness to and participants in those years of violence. It is about a man and a superpower who used each other, in a marriage of convenience between strange bed-fellows. Includes selected archival footage of Saddam's beginnings, filmed to immortalise his exploits, at 20 years of age, in 1959. Includes also images from the film, Saddam Hussein, le maître de Baghdad, directed by Michel Vuillermet (Zarafa Films)

Greedy in Thailand

Pascal Vasselin

Examine's Thailand's role in precipitating the "Asian economic crisis' of the late 1980s. The rollercoaster forces of globalisation and a large inflow of speculative capital led first to a boom, then a downturn that saw billions wiped off world stock markets.