Slow Violence

2018, 15 minutes

Slow Violence is a short film about urban construction and regeneration seen as an environmental process.

It is played out as a slide lecture presented by four young adults who discuss this process in their own particular vernacular, in what moves between a lecture, an exhibition, the reading of a manifesto and an epic poem. As the slide projector cycles through images of urban regeneration and decay, the projector becomes a protagonist in its own right, forcing its imagery on the group, until the slow violence described by the protagonist is reduced to a physical, very immediate violence. Slow Violence is a short experimental film that will be shown initially as part of a UK art biennale and a public art institution in London, and subsequently submitted to film festivals internationally. Shot by DoP Matthew Noel-Tod and with an original score by Montreal based legend Bernard Felaise, and directed by Kihlberg & Henry.

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