Divided Together

HD Film, Black and white, 4 minutes, 33 seconds, 2018.
Director: Ewan Macbeth
Writers: Ewan Macbeth / Tom Roberts
Cinematography: Zhibin Quin
Montage / Script Supervisor: Lotte De Jong
Sound Design : Salvador Miranda

Starring:
The Leader: Jeremiah Fleming
The Make-up Artist: Gill Baldwin

Divided Together is a political satire that takes place within an alternate reality. The film portrays the leader of an ideologically ambiguous government as he has an awkward and leering interaction with a make-up artist, followed by his televised address to a newly-invaded country. The work considers politicians as actors, with the obscene as their mise en scène.

The film attempts to illuminate the spectacle of the media and political arena utilising Brechtian alienation to consider the absurdity and artificiality of contemporary politics, with specific reference to the so-called 'War on Terror' era.

The film premiered at the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam.

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