This is a YouTube edit of the almost finished Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. I’d like to 1. finish it and 2. submit it for this, the deadline for which is the 11 of July.
I hope this version, and the one that was in the degree show, is a little less racist than some of the earlier ones. I watched it the other day and I actually think it’s quite good. Let me know what y’all think.
July 1, 2008 at 1:50 pm
[...] Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1967 speech of the same name and places them into the mouths of a number of young, female Americans currently living in London. The small pool of people that the speakers are drawn from has no pretensions to be representative, they are each individuals with a specific encounter with their national culture. The distance between the original and re-enactment is clear, but the distance between our foreign exposure to American culture and a first hand experience is far greater. The interviews that accompany the readings of the speech are not an attempt to close this gap, they in fact only serve to reinforce it. Young Americans, speaking from behind TV screens, are inevitably viewed through the prejudice towards American culture. [...]