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Raban, William (2005) Civil Disobedience - 35mm film. [Art/Design Item]
| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | ||||
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| Creators: | Raban, William | ||||
| Description: | Civil Disobedience presents a rapid time-lapse journey from the Houses of Parliament to the open sea. This is offset by David Cunningham’s musical score composed from fragments of Margaret Thatcher’s Belgrano speech delivered to the Tory Party conference in 1982. From this hectic compression of time and space, the audience may interpret meaning in a variety of different ways. For example it could be seen in terms of breaking the rules, or a political concept. The film’s title could equally be seen as a reflection upon Thoreau’s essay “civil disobedience”. For Civil Disobedience, the camera mechanism had to be altered so that each individual frame was a 2 second time-exposure. This overcame the problem of having instantaneous exposures where there would have been a perceptible jump between one frame and the next. The car journey from London to Dover was calculated in order to span the 3 minutes duration of the musical score. The final image of the child throwing the stone documents what actually happened at the end of that journey. |
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| Additional Information (Publicly available): | Civil Disobedience was shown “unofficially” at the Kommunales Kino, Freiburg, Germany in December 2004 but the world premiere took place in January 2005 at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film was selected for showing on the British Council stand at Cannes Film Festival in May 2005 and in the same month it was shown in a Raban retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, France. Civil Disobedience was selected for the Seoul Experimental Film Festival in October 2005 and in the same month it was shown at the Xfilm Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria (http://www.xfilmfestival.net). In June 2006 Civil Disobedience was selected for the Hamburg International Short Film Festival competition (http://archiv.shortfilm.com/ikff2006/indexbb59.html?id=369&L=1) and shown at Centre for Fine Arts/Studio, Brussels in June 2007 (http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7443). |
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| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | RAE2008 UoA63 | ||||
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication | ||||
| Date: | 26 January 2005 | ||||
| Funders: | London Institute | ||||
| Related Websites: | http://archiv.shortfilm.com/ikff2006/indexbb59.html?id=369&L=1, http://www.xfilmfestival.net/downloads_files/xfilmFestival2005.pdf, http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7443 | ||||
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| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Kommunales Kino, Freiburg, Germany 3 December 2004 3 December 2004 Rotterdam International Film Festival 29 January 2005 5 February 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art Strasbourg 17 May 2005 18 May 2005 EXIS Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul September 2005 September 2005 XFILM Festival Sofia, Bulgaria October 2005 October 2005 'Figuring Landscapes' at Tate Modern 6 February 2009 8 February 2009 'Kamera Kinetics' Pavement Gallery, Manchester 14 February 2009 17 March 2009 |
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| Material/Media: | 35mm motion picture film | ||||
| Measurements or Duration of item: | 3 minutes | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2009 00:09 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2015 21:47 | ||||
| Item ID: | 1377 | ||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/1377 |
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