Last Friday at the Angelika Film Center Severe Clear, Kristian Fraga’s incisive on-the-ground documentary of a U.S. Marine battalion during early phases of the Iraq War opened.  Working exclusively with First Lieutenant Mike Scotti’s first-person video footage and diary-style voiceovers, Fraga crafts a distinctly nonpartisan portrait of contemporary military life during wartime. Scotti and his fellow [...]