The war has turned Yemen into the greatest humanitarian catastrophe on earth, according to the UN. A partial blockade is upheld with Swedish weapon technology, and starves the Yemenis. Five million children risk dying. I documented the UN-led peace talks on Yemen, which Sweden hosted in 2018. In Stockholm I later on confronted ordinary people with the question: How can we stop the war? Also, I started baking a miniature model of the ancient city of Sanaa. With the help of archive material, gingerbread houses and a filmed survey in and around Stockholm, I explored how to remedy the cruelty and apathy in the world. Yemen is called the "forgotten war", and this thesis attempts to highlight what we would rather keep out of our consciousness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uniarts-1312 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Holm, Tanja |
| Publisher | Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för film och media |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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