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Evening screening with BSL interpretation of Naeem Mohaiemen THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY
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Evening screening with BSL interpretation of Naeem Mohaiemen THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY

Book your free ticket for an evening screening with live BSL interpretation of THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY, a new three-channel film by Turner Prize nominated artist Naeem Mohaiemen. The film explores memorialisation, protest, and political violence through the lens of events in May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state violence. Doors: 6.15 pmFilm screening: 6.30 – 8 pm (approx) Please note this film contains historic content featuring racialised language, images and graphic descriptions of violence, including death and acts of war. It may not be suitable for viewers under 16 years of age. Parental discretion advised. About the filmAs the Vietnam War came to its bloody end, for the American media, the memory of four American students shot dead at Kent State University was sometimes as emotionally charged as the millions of deaths in Vietnam. In the decades that followed, a memorial community has formed around the ‘four dead in Ohio’. Yet while the deaths of students Alison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder at Kent State, Ohio, are remembered, not many recall Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two students killed ten days later by police officers at Jackson State College, Mississippi, a Historically Black College. By choreographing the relationship between archival footage and contemporary ceremonies memorialising the dead, THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY explores the role of memorials as...

Wed 15 Apr18:15Bonington Gallery(3.6mi)

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