RAGE

6 mins/16mm/1997

written & directed by Mark Norfolk.

Rage is a non-narrative, experimental film which aims to explore the theme of internal rage, the inner rage that a person feels at seeing or hearing injustice. The brutal murder of young, black teenager, Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white youths in 1994, followed by botched police prosecutions and failure to bring anyone to justice were the motivations behind the film. With its eclectic use of sound and vision, ramped film speeds and layers of sound featuring “If We Must Die”, the Pulitzer Prize winning poem by Claude McKay, succeeds in conjuring up the emotion of rage without ever becoming angry.