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Engauge 2021 The Republics (Feature Film)
Oct. 28 at 7pm PT
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Huw Wahl
UK
2020
1h 24m
Festival - Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2021
About
For four decades, poet, translator and activist Stephen Watts has been the quietly urgent, profoundly committed voice of the marginalised and the overlooked, whether person or place. He understands that the true ethical centre that matters lies at the edge, whether in the pull of outpost islands or the common ground of migrant streets. His tools are perennial witness and precise resistance through poem and prose, anchored in lyric anger for justice and praise song to the loved but fragile things. The language he deploys is one of dark illumination. His is fiercely internationalist writing, a challenge to the abuses of the age that is tense with solidarity, resonance and grace.
Now he has found his collaborative equal in the engaged 16mm filmmaker Huw Wahl, who has translated the text of Watts book-length prose poem Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds into a luminous feature-length documentary essay of remarkable beauty and spirited attention. The Republics moves from the early 1980s to the present, and from Londons Isle of Dogs and Scotlands Western Isles where Watts lived and worked as a shepherd in his youth to the mountains of Northern Italy: at once a topographic journey and a highly personal meditation on history, memory, identity and belonging.
Anchored in Watts biography and lines, it nevertheless explores the larger truths of being and the calibrations of response to often hard earned, lived experience. Considering the changing landscapes of settlement in Londons East End and Scottish islands, the destruction of working-class culture and an attendant sense of the collective, the film and its writing are themselves forms of cultural activism: elegy, celebration and a toolkit for ongoing resistance.
Never rhetorical, always endowed with a profound empathy and a deep sense of relation to time, place and human struggle The Republics is one of the most impressive artists films of recent years, whose own poetry speaks as honestly and eloquently as that of the writer it portrays.
Gareth Evans, Moving Image Curator, Whitechapel Gallery
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