About Refracted Violence
Refracted Violence is an interactive web experience which uses audio-visual materials gathered during the Screening Violence research project.
Screening Violence showed films on the subject of civil conflict to participants in five countries: Algeria, Argentina, Colombia, Indonesia, and Northern Ireland. We then asked the participants to reflect on their own experiences of civil conflict.
With their consent, we present some of the footage we captured of these reflections.
Refracted Violence is designed to allow users to explore this material in a variety of non-linear ways, and to present our participants’ stories to new audiences and new interpretations.
Both projects are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Films Screened
The following films were selected to give a glimpse into the political conflicts of their respective places. They were screened in each of the other countries represented in the Screening Violence project.
Indonesia: The Visit (dir. Bobby Prasetyo)
Algeria: Letter to my Sister
(dir. Habiba Djahnine)
Northern Ireland: Five Minutes of Heaven (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Argentina: Who am I? (dir. Estela Bravo)
Colombia: False Positives
(dir. Simone Bruno and Dado Carillo)
Guy Austin
Project LeaderGuy is Professor of French Studies at Newcastle University. He led the original Screening Violence research project (2018-2023) on which this website is based. He researches and teaches on Algerian cinema and culture.
School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University
Email: guy.austin@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7447
Gemma McKinnie
Researcher/FilmmakerGemma McKinnie is a filmmaker and researcher at Newcastle University. She was a Research Associate on Screening Violence and an Investigator on Refracted Violence. She teaches film and cultural studies at Newcastle and has founded a startup to support non-fiction content creators. Her PhD considered the intervention of the camera into extraordinary political events.
Email: gemma.mckinnie@newcastle.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7447
Credits
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Design and Development
Sleeky
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Creative Direction
Gemma
Argentinians discuss further False Positives
Argentinians discuss "False Positives"--1
Portrait: Activist
An Argentinian couple discuss politics, part 1
An Argentinian couple discuss politics, part 2
Who am I? (clip) dir. Estela Bravo
A youth group discuss the Indonesian film Sowan (The Visit), Part 1
A youth group discuss the Indonesian film Sowan (The Visit), Part 2
A youth group discuss the Indonesian film Sowan (The Visit), Part 3
A discussion of the Colombian film False Positives
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