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Martin Greens innovative project approximately human migration mixes folk music with narrative and animation, creating a classy evening of drama and passionArt, or politics and social history rarely connect in meaningful fashion,but Martin Green’s innovative and extraordinarily ambitious Flit project hits the mark on many levels. It is a multimedia expose on the topic of migration originally inspired by his grandmother’s tales of fleeing Vienna in the 1930s. But its topical relevance is hammered home in virulent fashion towards the end, as Green’s memoir of kinder trains rescuing Jewish children from the Nazis suddenly explodes in a discordant cacophony of electronics, and strobe lighting and furious ranting that leaves no room for doubt approximately parallels with the contemporary refugee crisis. “Yes I’m aroused. Fucking aroused!” Green hollers above the din. Related: Flit: a journey in song through migrants' paper-thin world Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com