“In order to take freedom from the people, Essential truths must be concealed.” Unveil was a film that explored the concept of who decides what gets covered up and why. The first example of this is the fact that in 2003 a truly subversive act was committed in New York City. The tapestry reproduction of Picasso’s famous anti-war painting hanging in the UN security council entrance hall was covered up. The iconic image had hung there since 1985 to remind the member states of the horror of war and how not to behave in the world. The secretary of state, Colin Powell was about to turn the message of Guernica on its head, addressing the world’s media to argue that Iraq needed to be disarmed by force. Weeks later 800 cruise missiles were dropped on a mostly civilian population in Bagdad.
The second was the banning of the burqa and how women are oppressed in both the east and the west by either having to cover up (Burqa) or by uncovering themselves (Jorden)
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