All Static & Noise

Jewher, a teenage Uyghur girl from China with limited knowledge of English, lands in the United States after being violently separated from her father at Beijing airport while he was being detained. Abduweli, a linguist and poet who was imprisoned and tortured for teaching the Uyghur language to six-year-olds, travelled to Istanbul after his release. The testimonies and efforts of survivors of China’s network of ‘re-education camps’ and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States, instil All Static & Noise with a sense of urgency that exposes the massive brutality of state oppression in Western China. Together, these voices highlight the moral dilemma between risking the safety of families back home by speaking out and the need to expose atrocities in the hope that global awareness will lead to change. Each voice brings us closer to one of the most glaring human rights disasters of our time. All Static & Noise asks difficult questions and pays tribute to those who are prepared to speak out.