The School is delighted to screen The Silence Of The Flies, an award-winning documentary about suicide in rural Venezuela.
Gonzalo Chacon, an alumnus of the MA in Visual Anthropology, has served as executive producer on the film which has been screened internationally and won several awards, including best cinematography at the Moscow International Documentary Film Festival (DOKer), and a special prize for mental health awareness at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival earlier this year.
The Silence Of The Flies will be screened on Wednesday 9th December at 16:00 in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2. Gonzalo will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening discussion. All are welcome.
Synopsis:
The Silence Of The Flies takes place among small agricultural communities located in Venezuela’s Andes region, where suicides have become a very significant part of their everyday. The film explores through different cases the motives, means, places, and most important, the silence surrounding this delicate matter. Countries seem to ignore that several rural communities in Latin America face a sort of suicide ‘outbreak’, probably associated with the contradictions presented by cultural globalization. This is a documentary that challenges our prejudices about life in a rural environment.