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Who Are We?

Year: 2016
Runtime: 5 min
Type: Movie
Genre: Documentary

Overview

On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. Who Are We? is a re-working of material from a BBC television debate transmitted a few weeks earlier.โ€The most provocative of the bunch is John Smithโ€™s Who Are We?. Leading up to the Brexit vote, BBCโ€™s Question Time became ever more vicious and confrontational. Who Are We? is a manipulation of one of those broadcasts, with David Dimbleby prompting โ€œyou, sir, up there on the far rightโ€ repeatedly.โ€œGet our identity back โ€“ vote leave!โ€ one audience member shouts, while another declares himself a veteran, followed by a swift manipulated cut to rapturous applause. Itโ€™s a heavily edited and remixed edition of Question Time, but by highlighting those in the audience with attitudes ranging from nationalistic to xenophobic, Smithโ€™s short film shows the now normalised extremism within our society and our political discourse.โ€ Scott Wilson, Common Space magazine, April 2017

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