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Blow Up
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A young woman blows herself up in a small men’s only mosque in London’s east end. Traumatized by the events of 9/11, isolated and dislocated from her home abroad, and overcome by her fear of the cultural differences that surround her in her largely Muslim neighborhood, her horrific act of destruction is carried out in a state of extreme trauma, isolation, depression and despair. In depicting this unspeakable and extreme act of violence, Blow Up seeks to explore the irrational fear of the Other that is the product of the climate of fear generated by the “war on terror”.

Blow Up is an experimental work of narrative fiction. It is a thematically and visually challenging artist’s video that grapples with the complex subject of urban/Western suicide terrorism, cultural and religious identity and otherness, the traumatic aftermath of events such as 9/11 and 7/7, and the dangerous consequences of the war on terror. Filmed on a mobile phone, Blow Up draws its visual inspiration and aesthetic from the haunting images captured on mobile phones by victims of the July 7th London bombings. Blow Up was filmed in the artist’s neighborhood of Whitechapel, just a few minutes’ walk from the Aldgate tube station bombing.

This video is part of a larger body of interdisciplinary work by the artist, that engages with themes of subjectivity, identity, and the production and dissemination of images in the larger context of the war on terror, the occupation of Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
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