It’s a kind of sonic battle scene that ends only when the pair freezes on the grass and the screen goes black, before the appearance of the title, Moments of Silence. The noise amplifies, grows denser and more desperate as the couple walk toward us, (punctuated for a moment by the reports of the flag-bearing officers’ heels as they march into place behind the pair). The moment two soldiers open twin doors on President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, we hear the shutters start falling, like the angry beating of electronic wings trapped in a jar of silence. The film begins neither in peace, nor stillness, but with a frantic percussive assault.
#Moment of silence series#
SNAFU (“Situation Normal: All _Filmed_ Up”) – Film series events: Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, 4 September 2021 Gylleboverket (FolketsBio), Simrishamn, 18 September 2021 Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, 2 October 2021 Kiviks bio, Kivik, 23 October 2021 Biografteatern Scala, Ystad, 5 November2021 Kino, Lund, 11 November 2021 Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, 4 December 2021 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (with Filmform), ĭocville International Documentary Film Festival, Leuven, 1-ģ4th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, 19-25 October 2015ġ9th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Praha, 27 October-1 November 2015ģ2nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, 10-15 November 2015ģrd Festival of Film and Urbanism, Slavutych, 6. The Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, 27 April 2015īusan Short Film Festival, Korea, 24-28 April 2015ĭocumentaMadrid, International Film Festival, Madrid, 30 April-Ħ1. Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, 25 April 2015 TEMPO Documentary Film Festival, Stockholm, 2-8 March 2015 Swedish premiere: Göteborgs Film Festival, 23 January– 2 February 2015ĭocpoint, Helsinki, 27 January – 1 February 2015 SITAC XII: Arte, Justamente | Just Art, Centro Cultural del Bosque, Teatro Julio Castillo, Mexico City, 22–24 January 2015 International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) Amsterdam, Paradocs section, 19–30 November, 2014 International premier: CPH: DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 6–16 November 2014
Today, as parts of the world are afflicted by intense violence and an unfathomable refugee crisis, the ritual of observing a moment of silence is one of the few acts that can bring people together no matter their differences. The power of such a ritual was immediately recognized and it now takes place across the globe.
For two minutes, transportation halted, factories broke off production, telephone exchanges ceased connecting calls.
The first widely observed national moment of silence took place in England on November 11, 1919, to commemorate Armistice Day-the end of World War I. Edited into a sequence, the silent minutes from different eras and geographical places are stitched together to create a unified moment of silence. The film Moments of Silence is a collage of archival footage depicting people gathering in mute testimony. For a moment-generally just a few minutes-that realm becomes a frozen needle aimed at the thought of something important, so important that it should never be forgotten. At certain times, dates, and places, pedestrians halt, traffic stops, and silence briefly reigns.
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