This free screening, ‘Memory Jackets’ draws on three studies of terror forensics to examine how both media and society are steeped in voyeuristic tendencies and narrative bias.
Presented in partnership with Queensland Film Festival, see three short films introduced by Dr Suzannah Fay-Ramirez of the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. Fay-Ramirez’s criminology and sociology research is underscored by questions of race and ethnic stratification, and how perceptions of crime influence individual actions.
‘Memory Jackets’: Mixed 64 minutes | 6:30pm | 15+
‘Watching the Detectives’ | Chris Kennedy 2017 | 36 minutes
Immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013, amateur detectives took to Internet chat rooms to try and find the culprits. Users on Reddit, 4chan and other gathering spots pored over photographs uploaded to the sites, looking for any detail that might point to the guilt of potential suspects.
’12 Explosions’ | Johann Lurf 2008 | 6 minutes
Filmmaker Johann Lurf sets off a series of fireworks in the dark streets of Vienna. Shots of dimly lit footpaths, deserted parking lots, a pedestrian bridge, weigh heavy with anticipation, followed by explosions as our expectations are confirmed one by one.
‘Rubber Coated Steel’ | Lawrence Abu Hamdan 2016 | 22 minutes
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a forensic audio analyst as well as an artist, and in 2014 he was asked to analyse audio files that recorded the shots that killed Nadeem Nawaraand Mohamed Abu Daher in the West Bank of Palestine. His audio investigation, which proved that the boys were shot by real bullets and not rubber ones, became the centre of a murder investigation that went through the military courts and international news networks to the US Congress.
Find out more on the IMA website here.
Image: Watching the Detectives (2017)
