27. dokumentART
films & future
On June 23, 2016, Britain decided to leave the EU. “Who Are We?” is an artistic ‘re-working’ of material from a BBC television debate broadcast only a few weeks earlier. “Get our identity back, vote!” cries one avid spectator, while another announces himself to be “a veteran”, followed by a quick manipulated cut of enthusiastic applause. A vociferously edited ‘remixed’ edition of this televised question time, Smith‘s short film reveals just how normalized extremism in our society and political discourse has become.