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  • Song of the Falklands (2008)
  • Short | 34 min | Documentary, Short
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Song of the Falklands (2008)
Short | 34 min | Documentary, Short
Twenty-six years after the Falklands War, television and radio continues to output programmes that imbue and renew the British psyche with an awareness regarding a small and final outpost of the British empire that was more-or-less unknown...See moreTwenty-six years after the Falklands War, television and radio continues to output programmes that imbue and renew the British psyche with an awareness regarding a small and final outpost of the British empire that was more-or-less unknown prior to the clash of the political and ideological needs of two distant nations in 1982. Song of the Falklands purposefully identifies paradox. It detects a desire for modernity in a society that has incorporated and indeed used a sense of its own pre-modern collective consciousness to appropriate the outside gaze into its own makeup. The Falkland Islanders deliberately define themselves as 'other' by what they are not. They are not Argentinian. Although their desire was to remain British they actually want to be 'Falklandish'. The film subverts the reliability of this awareness by using aspects of the signs themselves, the residues of images and sounds of the iconographic 'evidence' used to define the meaning, space, place and time of the islands, in such a way as to unsettle historical determinism. Falkland society is recognised as being interdependent with the native wildlife 'society' whose land the people occupy. Written by Clive Myer See less
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Clive Myer
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Clive Myer (written by)
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Clive Myer
Composer
Carl Boland
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Clive Myer
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Clive Myer
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