I greatly admire Broomberg and Chanarin‘s work and I’ve followed Massive Attack since their debut album Blue Lines. So, I was stoked to see them pair up and meditate on the tortuous capacity of sound, mix in an interview with former Gitmo prisoner and UK citizen Ruhal Ahmed, and then get Damon Albarn in on the act too.
Saturday Comes Slow was recorded at Cambridge University’s anechoic chamber (designed to create total silence). It is neither film, photography nor journalism; the video is part activism, probably art and definitely a call to thought.
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August 20, 2010 at 5:55 am
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[…] Listen and learn David White, photographer posted this on August 20th, 2010 Pete Brook over on Prison Photography has posted up an awesome find…you have to check it out&#… […]
August 20, 2010 at 8:37 am
Tom White
This is a remarkable piece. Massive Attack have been doing great things down all sorts of avenues since their Wild Bunch days. They have a long history of marrying their music with thought provoking visuals (years back they employed a good friend of mine as a tour photographer after seeing her installation of found photographs at the RCA, I just mention it as an example of how they think round corners..)
I’ve been turning over in my mind how this fits with Restrepo. There’s definitely something to be said about the depiction of war by comparing these two…
August 21, 2010 at 4:59 pm
petebrook
Cheers Tom. I’d never have tied in Restrepo, but its a good thought. Both pieces amp (pun intended) up the emotions of war, the assaults on the body and mind. Perhaps there’s the start to an analysis.
February 16, 2016 at 9:37 pm
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[…] A founding element of the era-defining Trip Hop genre, Massive Attack are known for taking forthright stances on political and governmental behaviours. Saturday Come Slow, their collaboration with released British Guantanamo detainees, Broomberg & Chanarin and Damon Albarn was poignant, crafted and clever, I thought. […]