si sapsford

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“I want ‘civil unrest’ to sit uncomfortably with the viewer. I think of it in quite a traumatic way because what we might think of as filmic is actually happening in reality in real time. Whilst we might stand or sit or drink a double espresso, on the other side of the globe there are people being water boarded. There is somebody trying to climb a fence trying to hand their child over to safety.”