Amnesty International has teamed up with Adam Freeland, leading advertising agency Drugstore, DarkFibre Films and visual effects specialists Prime Focus London to produce a hard-hitting short film about torture as part of its Unsubscribe campaign. The new 90-second film, Stuff Of Life, is a short on “waterboarding”, the hugely controversial practice of torturing prisoners by partially drowning them. The USA has recently admitted that its operatives have waterboarded people in the war on terror, and the new film is part of Amnesty International UK’s online-offline Unsubscribe campaign, which launched in October to mobilising support for human rights in the war on terror.
The Stuff Of Life film features a beautiful, back-lit plume of water – filmed using state-of-the-art methods at 1,000 frames per second slow-motion – against a black screen. And the upbeat soundtrack has been specially composed by Marine Parade boss Adam.
Amnesty International UK Unsubscribe campaign manager Sara Mac Neice said: “We were thrilled at what the producers of this film came up with – it’s a shocking subject captured in an arrestingly beautiful and innovative way. Basically, this film shows you what the CIA doesn’t want you to see - the disgusting reality of half-drowning a person then calling it ‘enhanced interrogation’. For a few seconds our film-makers did this for real – they poured water up the nose and into the mouth of someone who was pinned down with his head tilted back. Even for those few seconds, it’s horrifying to watch – the reality, in a secret prison with no-one to stop it, is much, much worse. Everyone who sees this terrifying film ought to take action to stop it happening in the real world – they should support our Unsubscribe campaign.”
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