All Static And Noise Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Amnesty International UK presents the award-winning documentary film All Static & Noise (USA) at the Amnesty International UK headquarters for a screening and discussion with academics, activists, and Uyghur scholar Abduweli Ayup, whose story is featured in the film. Tickets are free, although if you are able to make a donation to cover the cost of the screening that would be greatly appreciated (suggested donation £5). All Static & Noise is a groundbreaking documentary about atrocities committed against the Uyghur and Kazakh peoples in China. Weaving together photography, animation, dance, poetry, an original music score and personal testimony, All Static & Noise stimulates all senses and reminds us that in the darkest of times, we are strongest together.

Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with little English, lands in the U.S. 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. With each voice we are brought closer to one of the most egregious human rights disasters of our moment. All Static & Noise honors those willing to speak out and poses difficult questions that are imperatives in our inter-connected global economy of the 21st century.