MS#1 - Introduction

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"This film was shot clandestine with a mobile phone at Manus detention centre in Papua New Guinea" Since 2013 the Australian Government has been incarcerating refugees and asylum seekers arriving by boat on Manus Island and Nauru. The Manus Island compound currently detains a refugee who is also a journalist. This individual strives to gather information for an Australian journalist visiting the island and who wants to publish an article in the press about events in the detention facility. At the center of his investigation is a solitary confinement cell called Chauka, which is like a prison inside the prison. Some of the detainees speak to the refugee- journalist about their horrific experiences in the camp - especially in Chauka. At the same time, the visiting Australian journalist is investigating what Chauka means for the local Manusians. It appears that Chauka is the name of a bird which can be found only on Manus Island; it is the symbol of the island and decorates its flag. She speaks to some of the locals. Both the detained journalist and the visiting Australian journalist critically analyse different aspects the situation. We encounter first-hand experiences of what life inside the camp means, how it is governed, the political games between Australia and PNG on this matter, the way Manusians are treated by Australians, and the way locals think about the existence of the camp on their island.

Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time

The Spring 2021 Menzies Screening series launches with a vital documentary co-directed by Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani and Netherlands-based Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, who will join us after the film for a live Q&amp;A.&nbsp;Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time offers a first-person perspective on Australia’s controversial immigration detention facility on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. An imprisoned Boochani strives to gather information for an Australian journalist, as part of an investigation into a solitary confinement cell called Chauka, a prison inside the prison. Shooting in secret on a smartphone over a period of six months, Boochani captures life inside Manus and interviews fellow detainees about their experiences.&nbsp;This online screening is free and open to all (including audiences outside the UK), and will take place live and online via Eventive. It will be followed by a live Q&amp;A with the filmmakers, Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani, chaired by Menzies Screenings curator Stephen Morgan and Menzies co-director Béatrice Bijon. If you miss the live session, there will also be an opportunity to watch the film and recorded Q&amp;A for a limited period after the event.&nbsp;&nbsp;ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:&nbsp;Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. A political prisoner incarcerated by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea for almost seven years, he is the co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time (2017), and the author of No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador 2018).&nbsp;Arash Kamali Sarvestani is an Iranian Dutch Filmmaker and Video Artist. He studied cinema at the Art University of Tehran, and Video Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2015, he participated in Abbas Kiarostami's film-making workshop in Barcelona in 2015, where he came up with the idea of making a film from inside a refugee camp. His resulting collaboration with Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani, Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time (2017), was his first feature-length film. Béatrice Bijon is a scholar of English literature and women’s history, based in Canberra at the Australian National University as a Senior Lecturer. She is presently Co-Director of the Menzies Australia Institute. In her native France she taught at the University of Saint-Etienne, Lyon. Her present projects include work on the memorialisation of women’s activism, the life-work partnership of the photographer Axel Poignant and visual anthropologist Roslyn Poignant and the fiction of Alexis Wright.&nbsp;Stephen Morgan is a film programmer and academic whose research focuses on the cultural history of British and Australian cinema and the broader intersections of Empire and nation within settler and Indigenous cinemas. As well as serving as the Screenings Coordinator for the Menzies Australia Institute, he is also the Co-Programmer of the <a href="https://www.londonaustfilm.com/" target="_blank">London Australian Film Society &amp; Festival</a>.

Q&A w/ Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani

MS#1 - Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time (2017) + Q&A

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