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- Sherlock Holmes is baffled when he encounters a burglar who can disappear and gets prank-ed by him with the use of an exploding cigar.
- Artist Chloë Brown's short film proposes a powerful invocation, a call-to-arms for the voices of women to be heard. Entitled 'A Soft Rebellion in Paradise' Brown's intention was to create a film produced working only with women, with an all-female film crew, production team & performers. Conceived in response to Sheffield's proud history as a city known for its political activism and more especially as the city where the first women's suffrage organization in the UK was founded in 1851, the film focuses in particular on the voices of women that are too often silenced and lost in the retelling of histories around the world. Following in the wake of the 'Me Too' movement, the film questions the systematic contemporary and historical silencing of woman's voices. The filming, which took place on Sunday 2nd September 2018, became an empowering event in its own right, bringing together over 250 women in Paradise Square in Sheffield, a Georgian Square that was once the historic site for many political gatherings and protests. Here the crowd performed a series of 'Soft Rebellions': a term used by Brown to describe her on-going exploration of artistic actions that have previously included working with participants who dance, eat, meet and applaud in places where it is unusual, even forbidden to do so. Alongside the enactment by the crowd of a goose bump-inducing silence, and an ear- splitting yell, Brown approached Sheffield-based poet Geraldine Monk to write the text that is at the heart of the film and is part chant, part song and part incantation. The resulting poem 'Soft Rebellions in Paradise Squared' is a call to action by 'The Unquiets' (the women in the crowd) who urgently chant 'Here We Go, Here We Go'. Monk performs an incantation from the balcony in Paradise Square where John Wesley once addressed the masses and a group of four women referred to as 'The Choir' perform a discordant 'song' that references historian Mary Beard's lecture 'Women & amp; Power' that includes author Henry James' criticism of the female voice, which he described as 'a mumble or jumble, a tongueless slobber' 1 . The crowd also performed 'The Wigan Clap' - a form of applause championed by Northern Soul audiences at Wigan Casino in the 1970's (Brown's interest in this as a form of rebellion came out of a conversation she had in Detroit with Motown icon Martha Reeves in 2016). Belfast-based musician and performer DIE HEXEN has created an extraordinary and evocative film score, incorporating the ritualistic chanting of the crowd, the spell- casting of the poet, the urgency of the escalating applause and the euphoric release of The Yell with a soundscape that creates a rhythmic and powerful pulse that drives the film forward to its abrupt conclusion. The film was produced by Dana Bruce (Northern Order Films) and Jennifer Monks (Pencil Trick Productions), Executive Producer, Caroline Cooper Charles. Brown was commissioned by the visual arts organization 'Making Ways' to develop a piece of public art for the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. The film debuted at Sheffield Doc Fest 2019 in the square where it was shot.