Additional Films and Guests, Screen Share
Human Rights Day screening. Survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth of China's Uyghur detention and "re-education" camps. Q&A to follow.
All Static & Noise is an award-winning documentary on the Uyghur crisis by American director David Novack. The film, which exposes both the enormity of state-sponsored oppression and the individual struggles under horrific conditions, is the result of a five-year collaboration with Uyghur diaspora communities and 21 partner organizations across seven countries. An original score, animation, and the use of illustrations from the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database’s virtual reality camp project offer a chilling and emotional complement to the first-hand testimony from camp survivors and family members enduring this tragedy, including Jewher Ilham and Abduweli Ayup, among others. Filmed partially at IU. [102 min; documentary; English, Uyghur, Kazakh, and Mandarin with English subtitles]
A Q&A with Gardner Bovingdon (IU Central Eurasian Studies), associate producer Jewher Ilham, and co-writer/co-producer Janice Englehart will follow the screening.
"Offers a comprehensive and chilling history of how the Uyghurs came to be prisoners in their own land." — Nicholas Gordon, WeekendNotes
"The story of [the Uyghur people's] abuse and oppression, paradoxically, is both unique and also universal in the resilience and the strength of character it calls for. And for the audience—there is a moral call to action, to know and to remember, as watching this film is bearing witness from the beginning to the end." — Bianca-Olivia Nita, Modern Times Review
Any film screened at IU Cinema may contain content that viewers find sensitive or upsetting. Visit our Audience Advisories page to learn more.
.jpg)
