Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Monica Steen | 48 minutes

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The Shouting Fence

Monica Steen 2004 Music performance 48 min.

Orlando Gough and Richard Chew composed The Shouting Fence based on a
picture in a newspaper showing a Palestinian woman with a megaphone. The
piece Is based on the division of the Syrian village Majdal Shams in the
Golan heights. The village is divided In two by Introducing a no-go zone.
The only way for villagers to communicate with friends and family is by
shouting. Every Friday-night people gather on both sides of the border to
shout the news, the latest gossip, their mutual love and feelings of
frustration about the impossibility of embracing each other.

Review: https://electronicintifada.net/content/review-shouting-fence/3473