All Static and Noise follows family members and survivors of the atrocities committed by China against the Kazakh and Uyghur people.
In All Static and Noise, director David Novack and producer Janice Englehart bring together the testimonies and voices of those who have been subjected to the state-sponsored oppression and imprisonment in the ‘re-education camps’ taking place in western China. Together these voices highlight the moral dilemma between risking the safety of families back home by speaking out and the necessity of exposing atrocities in the hope that global awareness will bring change.
The documentary honours those who dare to speak out, while asking the difficult questions we need to ask ourselves in today’s globalised economy. Because how can you be sure that the t-shirt you own was not by forced labour? The screening of All Static and Noise follows up the Freedom Lecture by Jewher Ilham on June 19.
All Static & Noise, 2023, David Novack, 102′
Historian, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum dissects modern dictatorship. What threat do the growing autocracies pose? When thinking of a dictator, one often imagines a malicious villain – someone we know from an action movie. Historian, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum challenges this image. In her latest book Autocracy, Inc., she
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