{"id":10636,"date":"2021-11-03T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:00:09","slug":"liberation-radio-at-the-leeds-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/liberation-radio-at-the-leeds-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation Radio at the Leeds International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Esther Johnson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is a jury member for the Leeds International Film Festival<\/a> running from 3-18 November 2021. Esther\u00a0will also present her research\u00a0Liberation Radio<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at the festival on both the evening of the 13th and 16th of November. The film\u00a0will be available to view on Leeds Player<\/a> during the festival.<\/p>\n

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The work focuses on the little-known history of the North Vietnam ‘Liberation Radio’ station broadcasting from Hanoi in the 1960s-1970s. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind \u2013 to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war \u2013 and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert. Their recordings were transported from Sweden to Vietnam by diplomatic bag, and broadcast from transmitters on the rooftops of Hanoi, and revolutionary bases in the countryside. The work includes contributions from some of the surviving American deserters, Swedish anti-war activists, and Vietnamese journalists of the period. The project has been supported by the FAMLAB (Film, Archives and Music Lab) Fund as part of the British Council\u2019s Heritage of Future Past project in Vi\u1ec7t Nam.<\/p>\n

\u2018Liberation Radio\u2019\u00a0premiered earlier this year as a film installation at\u00a0Manzi ArtSpace<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in October at the 65th BFI London Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Esther is currently working on another project in Vietnam titled\u00a0DUST & METAL<\/a><\/strong>, a feature film utilising never-before-seen archive material from the Vietnam Film Institute, and with a live score from electroacoustic\/electronic composer and performer\u00a0Xo Xinh<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0This film is due to have Vietnam, US and UK premieres in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Esther Johnson<\/a>\u00a0works at the intersection of artist moving image and documentary. Her poetic portraits focus on marginal worlds, revealing resonant stories that may otherwise remain hidden or ignored. Work has been exhibited internationally in 40 countries, and has also featured on television and radio. In 2012 Johnson won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Performing and Visual Arts for young scholars. She is a Professor of Film & Media Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Esther\u2019s work\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Esther Johnson\u00a0is a jury member for the Leeds International Film Festival running from 3-18 November 2021. Esther\u00a0will also present her research\u00a0Liberation Radio\u00a0at the festival on both the evening of the 13th and 16th of November. The film\u00a0will be available to view on Leeds Player during the festival. The work focuses on the little-known history of the North Vietnam ‘Liberation Radio’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31871,"featured_media":10648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1648,140,1650,124,1715,115,327,948],"class_list":["post-10636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-admrc","tag-esther-johnson","tag-film-and-media-arts","tag-film-research","tag-liberation-radio","tag-media-arts-research","tag-screening","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2021\/11\/Leeds-Film-1.jpg?fit=870%2C287&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2Ly","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10426,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-liberation-radio-bfi\/","url_meta":{"origin":10636,"position":0},"title":"Professor Esther Johnson screening ‘Liberation Radio’ at the 65th BFI London Film Festival","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"14\/09\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Esther Johnson will present her research Liberation Radio at the forthcoming prestigious 65th BFI London Film Festival 2021, screening October 14th at BFI Southbank. 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