Village, silenced

2012
Country: USA
Duration: 7 mins
B&W,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: SD Digital file
Original Format: SD Video

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A re-working of Humphrey Jennings’ seminal 36-minute 1943 docudrama “The Silent Village,” wherein Welsh coal miners from the village of Cwmgiedd collectively re-enact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting Czech mining village of Lidice. Focus in this iteration is on sound as a mode of social control and the larger historical implications of repetition. An homage to Jennings’ lucid address of labor solidarity, power and commemoration.

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