The Battle of Orgreave (2001).avi

The Battle of Orgreave (2001)

Conception: Jeremy Deller
Direction: Mike Figgis
Production: Artangel

The original battle of Orgreave took place in 1984 in South Yorkshire
and was a showdown between the striking miners led by Arthur Scarill
and the government led by Margaret Thatcher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orgreave

In 2001 the British artist Jeremey Deller proposed a historical
re-enactment at the original location.

The project was realised by arts organisation Artangel with Deller
directing a group of re-enactors more used to English Civil War
battles. The irony of course is that in S Yorks the miners strike
was a civil war and Thatcher had called the miners 'the enemy within'.

Dellers art practice turns this irony and reference back on itself
even using ex-miners and ex-police as actors and working on many levels
the proposition is of a de-industrialised theme park Britain
where the present confronts history through art.

This is Mike Figgis' documentary of the re-enactment which captures
something if not all of the spirit of Dellers work.

1 hr, avi format, VHS source.


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