Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise

Milne, Louise

Abstract

Organiser and Q&A co-host with James Mavor: screening of David Novack’s All Static & Noise, Edinburgh Napier University, in conjunction with 21 charities and organisations including Amnesty International.

When Uyghurs and Kazakhs are arbitrarily detained in "re-education" camps by Chinese authorities, camp survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth in order to inspire change.

Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with no English, lands in the US after she is violently separated from her father at the Beijing airport as he is detained. Abduweli, a linguist and poet imprisoned and tortured for teaching Uyghur language to 6-year-olds, makes his way to Istanbul upon his release. Testimony and action from survivors of China’s network of “re-education camps" and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States, infuse All Static & Noise with an urgency that exposes the mass brutality of state-sponsored oppression 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.

Citation

Milne, L. (2023). Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise. [Feature film]. 3 November 2024 - 3 November 2024

• Exhibition Performance Type: Performance
• Start Date: Nov 3, 2024
• End Date: Nov 3, 2024
• Publication Date: 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 17, 2025
• Keywords: Uyghur, Ilham Tohti, Uyghurs, documentary film
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4177875
• Related Public URLs: https://gathr.com/events/fae61ae9/screening-and-discussion-all-static-noise
• External URL: https://www.allstaticandnoise.com/