THE SQUARE |
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The Square is a response to the events of early 2011 that became known as The Arab Spring. Confronting us with an array of reactions and impressions displaced from their original context, The Square asks us to reappraise our own relationship with dissent, democracy and revolution and, at the same time, responds to the increasing importance of online social networking sites to those demanding an alternative future for themselves and their country. |
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MONUMENT |
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I think the form of the bench is something very interesting, something "democratic" and useful, something to share, a bench is a gift and an offer (to the body and the spirit), a bench creates time, a bench can create encounters and dialogue, a bench is something which opens one space toward another space, a bench is always in a specific location, somebody decided to put it there, somebody did engage (or get committed - falling in love) with this decision, a bench - once placed on its location - starts itself to create "a place", to create "history" and to create "memory". [Thomas Hirschhorn writing about MONUMENT, September 11th, 2010] MONUMENT has music by Stephen Fretwell recorded by Guy Massey |
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TESTAMENT |
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Testament is a series of interviews with people who, over the last 70 years felt compelled to involve themselves in armed struggle because they felt it was the right thing to do : men who went to fight fascism in Spain in the 1930's, who took up arms for the radical left in Britain in the 1960's and 70s or who went to fight in Beirut in the late 70's and others who went to fight in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990's. The subjects of the films don't talk about what they did after they decided to fight. These are not war stories. Rather the films try and explore what it was that led these individuals to feel so strongly about something that they were prepared to fight in defence of it. |
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THE BELIEVERS |
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The Believers is a series of 12 ten-minute films made between 2003 and 2006. They are studies of people who believe they have 'the one truth' and who believe it to such an extent that they are on the streets of London spreading their truth day in day out. The films are not concerned with what the subjects believe, rather they try to establish why it is they believe it. |
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