Void Gallery presents online screening of Bring Down the Walls

Void Gallery in Londonderry is presenting a special preview screening of Bring Down The Walls – a new film by the artist Phil Collins - online on Void’s website on Saturday January 30, from 7pm-12 midnight.
By Julie-Ann Spence
Published 29th Jan 2021, 09:03 BST

This screening is presented in association with the Derry Radial Bookfair and Shady Lane Productions.

Bring Down The Walls looks at the US prison industrial complex through the lens of house music and nightlife. The connection between a system that locks the body up and music that sets it free comes from the years in which the director Phil Collins worked with a group of men incarcerated at Sing Sing, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.

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After access was revoked, he recorded a compilation of house classics with vocalists who have formerly been incarcerated, and in 2018 set up a communal space in the heart of Manhattan’s court district dedicated to the struggle for social justice and prison abolition. This online screening is free, but booking is essential. Bookings can be made via Eventbrite @Void Gallery and on the website at www.derryvoid.com. The film will be available on www.derryvoid.com from 7pm-12 midnight on Saturday January 30.

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