Short film
Civil Rites
2017 · 25 min
A quiet, essayistic drift through city streets and archival echoes, asking for patience and reflection rather than narrative momentum.
- Directed by
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Overview
- A cine-poem, taking as a starting point Martin Luther King's 1967 speech, given on receipt of his honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle, and visiting key locations in the city's history of civil resistance.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Race, politics, justice, memory
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman