NO ENEMIES
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Liu Xiaobo and his writing will live long beyond his death.
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NO ENEMIES - LIU XIAOBO (2013) 4 mins
Directed and drawn by Trish McAdam
Read by Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Mark Kilroy and Adam Shapiro.
Motion Graphics - Marc Sherwin
Music - David Blanc
Charcoal animation and After Effects - 4mins - based on an extract from the statement, ‘I Have No Enemies’, written by poet Liu Xiaobo. Read by: Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Mark Kilroy and Adam Shapiro.
Commissioned by Front Line Defenders and Pen International, No Enemies spearheaded their campaign by Front Line Defenders and PEN International demanding the release of imprisoned Chinese human rights defender Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, who was under house arrest. The campaign was part of a larger international effort to secure the freedom of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and had at its centre a petition which was signed by nearly half a million people all over the world.
The video is inspired by I Have No Enemies, a statement Liu Xiaobo prepared for his trial on 25 December 2009, where he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment on subversion charges for a peaceful call for democracy in China. It is both a brave political statement and a love letter to his wife, Liu Xia, an artist and photographer, subsequently forcibly confined to her apartment in Beijing, without charge, under guard and largely isolated from the outside world. She had not been accused, or found guilty, of any crime.
Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer in a hospital in North China in 2017, under guard. He was refused permission to be transferred to Germany for treatment. His wife Liu Xia was given permission to be by his side. There was international outcry and mourning at his treatment and death. Liu Xiaobo is only the second Nobel peace prize winner to die in custody.
Liu Xia was given permission to leave China in 2017 and now lives in Berlin.
Screenings include:
2019 - Irish Film Institute - Trish McAdam Season May 2019
2016 - Strangers: Film and Drawings, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2015 - Short and Sweet, Cape Town
2015 - International Exiles Film Festival, Sweden
2014 - Amnesty Festival, Holland
2013 - Nominated for the ICCL Human Rights Film Award 2013 - Gala Screening in the Lighthouse Cinema
2013 - Blackrock Animation Festival
2011 - Online Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VUfQ9LfN5Y
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/breaking-hearts-winning-minds-1.1429011
Directed and drawn by Trish McAdam
Read by Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Mark Kilroy and Adam Shapiro.
Motion Graphics - Marc Sherwin
Music - David Blanc
Charcoal animation and After Effects - 4mins - based on an extract from the statement, ‘I Have No Enemies’, written by poet Liu Xiaobo. Read by: Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Mark Kilroy and Adam Shapiro.
Commissioned by Front Line Defenders and Pen International, No Enemies spearheaded their campaign by Front Line Defenders and PEN International demanding the release of imprisoned Chinese human rights defender Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, who was under house arrest. The campaign was part of a larger international effort to secure the freedom of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and had at its centre a petition which was signed by nearly half a million people all over the world.
The video is inspired by I Have No Enemies, a statement Liu Xiaobo prepared for his trial on 25 December 2009, where he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment on subversion charges for a peaceful call for democracy in China. It is both a brave political statement and a love letter to his wife, Liu Xia, an artist and photographer, subsequently forcibly confined to her apartment in Beijing, without charge, under guard and largely isolated from the outside world. She had not been accused, or found guilty, of any crime.
Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer in a hospital in North China in 2017, under guard. He was refused permission to be transferred to Germany for treatment. His wife Liu Xia was given permission to be by his side. There was international outcry and mourning at his treatment and death. Liu Xiaobo is only the second Nobel peace prize winner to die in custody.
Liu Xia was given permission to leave China in 2017 and now lives in Berlin.
Screenings include:
2019 - Irish Film Institute - Trish McAdam Season May 2019
2016 - Strangers: Film and Drawings, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2015 - Short and Sweet, Cape Town
2015 - International Exiles Film Festival, Sweden
2014 - Amnesty Festival, Holland
2013 - Nominated for the ICCL Human Rights Film Award 2013 - Gala Screening in the Lighthouse Cinema
2013 - Blackrock Animation Festival
2011 - Online Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VUfQ9LfN5Y
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/breaking-hearts-winning-minds-1.1429011
Liu Xiaobo
Born
28th December 1955 Changchun, China
Died
13th July 2017, Shenyang, China
before the end of his 11 year imprisonment
Born
28th December 1955 Changchun, China
Died
13th July 2017, Shenyang, China
before the end of his 11 year imprisonment
Link here to Liu Xiaobo's I HAVE NO ENEMIES, full statement read by Liv Ullman at Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Lecture in Absentia 2010
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo-lecture.html
https://youtu.be/2VUfQ9LfN5Y
Link to the video
