Seeing films about the world - while the worlds swirls around us - is a strange out of body experience.

I spent much of yesturday following the story of the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the news... very much taken with the fact that it's the pictures, not the actions, that seem to have so many people up in arms. For Rumsfeld to gripe about all these people with camera's on the battlefield is chilling. It's not what we've done - or how we've acted as a nation - but rather the fact that we got caught.

Then I went with Pam to see "Sister Rose's Passion", Oren Jackoby's short about the Nun who has made it her lifes work to force the church to face the fact that there is a troubling undercurrent of hate and anti-jewish retoric in its teachings.

The film - with Passions of the Christ still very much in the public eye - is both timely and troubling.

The fact is that Mel Gibson's film will turn back the clock on Sister Roses' lifes work. And little to be done to change that. Film isn't simply 'entertainment' - it has impact... and we need to be aware of that as both filmmakers and audience members....