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& peace 08 |
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 Lisa Byrne Stand Up and Cry Like a Man
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war & peace 08 Trailer |
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eight video shorts offer a range of insights by artist film makers
from different cultural perspectives. Claire Fowler’s portrait Home records different perspectives of people living in the West Bank, Palestine, whereas Sarah Vanagt’s First Elections observes a group of children at play and in doing so gives us a view of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mahmoud Reza Sani’s video diary and modern fable of Afghanistan, Siyamo, brings a freshness that comes from the poetic bloodstream of Iranian cinema. Closer to home, Lisa Byrne documents taxi drivers in Northern Ireland scarred by the troubles, in Stand Up and Cry Like a Man. Kevin Logan’s Recitation is set in a London beset with fear of terrorists. In Burlesque, Tim Shore and Gary Thomas use performance to evoke the physical games of the British public school and which echo the role and function of soldiers. Animation is used in Aline Helmcke’s Destruk to decompose the familiar images of war. In RQV2 painter printmaker Jonathan Moss’s ghostly images evoke a sense of a place at a former war camp. Artist, activist, peace builder, peace keeper, citizen: each see the world so differently. Hopefully this multi faceted programme will stimulate the dialogue between us. Fiona Kam Meadley, August 2008 Fiona Kam Meadley is an artist film maker who initiated the War & Peace project in 2005. She is a member of the panel that selected this programme from an open call to artist filmmakers in the UK and abroad. The other panel members were: Elena Hill (Contemporary Art Programming), Zoë Shearman (independent curator) and Dominic Thomas (Stroud Valleys Artspace). |
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