[ecrea] video - Unseen Enemy: War Stories in Public Spaces

FILM: ‘UNSEEN ENEMY: WAR STORIES IN PUBLIC SPACES’

REFRAME Conversations' video Unseen Enemy: War Stories in Public Spaces 
draws on the British National Army Museum's “Unseen Enemy” exhibition 
(2013-2014) to explore the ways in which museums - as cultural public 
spaces that are in dialogue with other public media - are used to tell 
stories of war and the combat experience.

The Unseen Enemy exhibition, which told a story of Improvised Explosive 
Devices and their impact in Afghanistan, raised critical questions about 
how the disembodied technologies of war and the embodied human 
experience of war are mediated and explained in public cultural spaces, 
and how this relates to the wider politics of war and militarization.

The “Unseen Enemy: War Stories in Public Spaces” video addresses these 
questions through the reflections of the Exhibition’s co-curator Amy 
Cameron and three participants invited to visit the exhibition by the 
film's director Dr Sarah Maltby: Dr Katy Parry, Lecturer, The Institute 
for Communication Studies, Leeds University; Melanie Friend, 
Photographer and Senior Lecturer, Sussex University; and Craig Ames, 
Lens Based Practitioner and Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland.

Click here to view the film: 
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/conversations/archive2014/unseen_enemy/

For further information about the film please contact Sarah Maltby: 
(s.maltby /at/ sussex.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.maltby /at/ sussex.ac.uk)>


Dr Sarah Maltby

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Senior Lecturer
Department of Media and Film
University of Sussex, Sussex House, Brighton BN1 9RH