Cry Havoc

Guli Silberstein / United Kingdom / 2017 / World Premiere / 5 min.

synopsis

A mass of protestors in remediated scenes, a becomes an expression of the strength and passion of the crowd, while dynamic abstractions and visual shifts show changing interpretations of people´s expressions within a crowd and of their reasons and objectives for protesting, all in a lightning-fast onslaught of media images.

“Cry Havoc is part of a long-term research project in which video works process images of violence and protest from TV and online news media, studying the complex nature and impact of these images, and looking for new aesthetic forms.” G. Silberstein

biography

Video artist Guli Silberstein (1969) was born in Israel but lives and works in Great Britain. He studied film and media in Tel Aviv and New York. His films, in which he uses digital technology to manipulate images, explores questions of media representation, war, violence and power. The Ji.hlava IDFF has shown several of his works, including System Error (2013), Nour (2015) and Stuff as Dreams (2016).