RAGE
5m 11s
Rage is a non-narrative, experimental film which aims to explore the theme of internal rage, the inner rage that a person feels at seeing or hearing of injustice. The motivation behind the film was the brutal murder of young, black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, who was killed by a gang of white youths in 1994, while waiting at a bus stop. But what essentially precipitated the making of the film were the two subsequent botched police prosecutions, and the failure of the authorities to bring anyone to justice. Shot in one day in the main town centre in Lewisham, a borough close to the murder scene, using actors and members of the public, a silent voice is allowed to be heard. With its eclectic use of sound and vision, featuring the Pulitzer Prize winning poem by Claude McKay, “If We Must Die”, bellowed with passion by Jason Rose, and different film speeds and layers of sound, we succeed in conjuring up the emotion of rage without ever becoming angry.