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1/11/2012

Deep State

waterside contemporary, London

A new film by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler scripted in collaboration with author China Mieville. The work takes its title from the Turkish term 'Derin Devlet', meaning 'state within the state'. This shadowy nexus of special interests and covert relationships is the place where real power is said to reside, and where fundamental decisions are made. Amorphous and unseen, the influence of this deep state is glimpsed at regular points throughout the film - most clearly surfacing in its reflexive responses to popular protest, and in legislated acts of violence and containment, but also rumbling and reverberating, deeper down, in a counter-language to that of popular revolt, in which a police charge, a baton attack, pepper spray, assassinations provoke, and respond to, a raised fist, a thrown rock, a crowd surge, an occupation. A powerful undertow in the ongoing tide of history, this push and pull of competing forces is deftly illuminated in a vivid montage of newly filmed and archive footage. Past, present and future collide to form a continuum, in which clear patterns start to recur. Deep State was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, funded by Arts Council England and London Councils. Private view screening and reception friday 2 November, 6.30pm.

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