Wynne, John and Davidmann, Sara (2020) I am the gigantic baobab. [Art/Design Item]
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| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | |||||||||
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| Creators: | Wynne, John and Davidmann, Sara | |||||||||
| Description: | This 26 minute video was made by John Wynne and Sara Davidmann, who worked with young members of the LGBTQ+ community in Botswana. Change is coming slowly, if at all, for LGBTQ+ people in many parts of the world. In Botswana, welcome changes to legislation concerning same sex relationships were passed in 2019. But to be lesbian, gay or transgender in Botswana still requires considerable strength and bravery, and with social attitudes in flux, the conversation is as essential as ever. We wanted to go beyond a structured interview approach to capture people’s experiences and stories in ways they felt most comfortable with. We explored different formal approaches to framing, editing and processing both sound and image for each participant in order to reflect the diversity of their experiences, which varied from activism and artistic expression to ‘correctional rape’ and domestic violence. The film has been selected for the Strangelove Festival 2020 and the Leeds Queer Film Festival 2020 (postponed due to Covid-19). |
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| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication Research Centres/Networks > Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) |
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| Date: | 2020 | |||||||||
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| Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2020 12:05 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2020 12:05 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 16054 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/16054 |
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