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Village, Silenced (Deborah Stratman, 2012)

3 Sep, 22

 
 
 
Edit & Sound Design – Deborah Stratman
Camera – H.E. Fowle
 
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.