2020: STATE OF EXCEPTION: live screening 2
Event Information
About this event
Join Open City Documentary Festival for a live screening of 2020: State of Exception by Merijn Royaards and Henrietta Williams.
2020: State of Exception (15') charts a hyper-real visual and sonic journey through the heavily controlled landscape of lockdown London during the Covid-19 crisis of 2020. The project sets out to connect viewers across digital space into an experiential understanding of our own bodies and our place within the surveilled city.
An accompanying essay will be available online ahead of the live event.
Artists/researchers Merijn Royaards and Henrietta Williams have a collaborative sonic/visual practice with a focus on themes of borders, surveillance and security systems in urban space. Their research practice is based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where they also teach filmmaking as part of the MA Situated Practice. [www.merijnroyaards.com & www.henriettawilliams.com]
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PLEASE NOTE: this event will be live streamed. Ticket holders will be sent a link to access the event 1 hour before the event start time.
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Alternative screening times of this film are scheduled for: Friday 11th September at 6pm BST and Tuesday 15th September at 7pm BST . Both of these screenings are followed by a live panel discussion.
Organiser Open City Documentary Festival
Organiser of 2020: STATE OF EXCEPTION: live screening 2
Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers.
The festival takes place over seven days in venues across central London and the programme offers a chance to see the best in contemporary, international documentary as well as filmmaker Q&As, industry panels, workshops, live music, networking and parties. The 2020 festival will take place between 9th-15th September 2020.
