May 7, 2010: 1000 Voices
1000 Voices is a short film which briefly examines the plight of detainees in UK prisons in the post-9/11 world. With no limit on their detention time, these people, suspected terrorists for whatever reason, are put aside and forgotten until it’s convenient to deal with them, which might be never. A darkly comic animated prologue has a bureaucrat presenting a proposal for one of these facilities, showing bright airy sunny buildings with lots of windows. The reality is dark and isolated situations, as illustrated by the cacophony of actual recorded phone calls from these detainees in the background. Regardless of the scale of the events of September 11, 2001, as compared with worldwide daily atrocities, it cannot be denied that it was a turning point in the world’s attitude towards national security and the extent to which individual rights were suspended in order to maintain a sense that the situation is under control.
This is reality for many people.
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