Massive Attack have released a new short film entitled Saturday Come Slow, featuring their collaboration with Damon Albarn and highlighting the effects of sound on the human body, and sometime use as a torture technique.
Shot by renowned photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, it features former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ruhal Ahmed who was held captive at the base for two and a half years. In the film a narrator describes the effect of sound on the human body before Ahmed recounts the use of sound as an instrument of torture during his interrogations at the base, whilst the film builds into the looping acoustic track featuring Blur and Gorillaz front-man Damon Albarn on vocals.
Saturday Come Slow is the fifth in a series of seven short films commissioned alongside their new album Heligoland. It was filmed in the Anechoic Chamber at Cambridge University's Department of Engineering, a room designed to facilitate complete silence. Upon visiting the room in the past, experimental composer John Cage remarked, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation." True silence is impossible.
Watch the film below or watch the full series on Massive Attack's dedicated site:
Massive Attack's dedicated Heligoland films Twitter 'Tweater'
11:40 AM | 17/03/2010
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