A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, telling stories of permeable borders and impermeable laws, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.
45th Parallel
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“The film ingeniously unfolds as a geometric theorem on the absurdity of borders and protective – or hypocritical – legislation and the anomaly of a single jurisdictional case becomes the vector for a global issue: the unacceptable impunity of drone wars and their coward violence at a distance. This is an urgent reality check.”
“The film ingeniously unfolds as a geometric theorem on the absurdity of borders and protective – or hypocritical – legislation and the anomaly of a single jurisdictional case becomes the vector for a global issue: the unacceptable impunity of drone wars and their coward violence at a distance. This is an urgent reality check.”
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Biography
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator or Private Ear. His investigations focus on sound and linguistics and have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture. Abu Hamdan received his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths College University of London and in 2021 completed a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research airpressure.info . Past fellowships have been held at the University of Chicago and the New School, New York.
Filmography
- The Diary of a Sky (2023), 44 mins
- 45th Parallel (2022), 15mins
- Once Removed (2019), 29mins
- Walled Unwalled (2018), 21mins
- Rubber Coated Steel (2016), 22mins
