To Shoot An Elephant - Bradford

Event published by Protag

Event date: January 18, 2010 19:00

Published by group: 1 in 12 Club

Tagged as: anti-militarism repression

Places: bradford

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From the film-makers' blurb:

The "To shoot an elephant" team calls for a Global Screening-Global Screaming Day for Gaza on January 18th , 2010

The 18th of January 2010 is the first anniversary of the end to the bombing by Israel of the Gaza Strip; an attack which began on the 27th of December 2008, and lasted until the 18th of January 2009, and in which 1,412 Palestinians lost their lives.

The documentary "To shoot an elephant" is an eye witness account from within the Gaza Strip of what occurred during those days. This direct and privileged narration becomes a tool with which we can confront the Israeli propaganda about what really happened there and the silence of the international community.

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For its value as a testimony of the civilian population, "To shoot an elephant" has become a legitimate account which tells of what really happened there. It is an irreplaceable image of what the mass media tries to hide, an exceptional soundtrack to be listened to by those who live under Zionist control... Fragments of reality showing what life is like inside a war where there is no possibility of escape.

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As well as its narrative and informative value, "To shoot an elephant" is an example of a collective, autonomous and horizontal effort, which aims to innovate the methods and ways in which audiovisual projects are carried out, as much in its production process as in its distribution and diffusion. By opting, with deliberation for the collective work process and Creative Commons licensing our aim is for the documentary to overcome the limits of those who produce it, and that it becomes the material of those who view it.

From the "To shoot an elephant" team we are calling on any individual, group or collective to organise a screening on the 18th of January 2010; it doesn't matter where, at what time, or in what way it is done, the only condition being, that there is no charge or entry fee. Be it in a town square, a cinema, a theatre, cultural centre, school or college, the headquarters of a collective, social centre, squat centre...

We are calling it a Global Screening and our wish is for it to become a global event, not only on the Net but also on a local level; and for it to become a reality in the form of antagonistic communication, and therefore constitute a victory over the existing international silence. And in so doing become a fundamental element of the networks and the diffusion of ideas. The proposition of this Global Screening is for it to be a political event which commemorates last year's bombing, but also serves as an impulse for audiovisual material to be used as a tool for the sharing of information.

So, the achievement of having it screened in as many places as possible will allow the documentary's discourse and the spreading of its message to become of a major significance as a consequence.

Fim-makers website: to shoot an elephant

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