PAMPHLET, 28 pages (2021)
VIDEO, 27mins (2021)
THIS TRUST IDEA (trailer)
THIS TRUST IDEA blends a diverse cross-section of found material to playfully explore the intersection of trust, coercion and democracy.
Inspired by a new world in which isolation is the new normal, Wilson acknowledges that the film is provocative, made to be consumed in a cinema and discussed at length afterwards.
Initiated by early observations that the nations who dealt with Covid-19 most successfully were those who had the highest levels of trust between citizens and institutions, and those with the worst infection rates were countries where public trust was at it’s lowest (places where nobody believes their politicians nor their newspapers).
THIS TRUST IDEA: Discussion
This Trust Idea / Online screening hosted by SIDE cinema
Part of the Collective Now season in June 2021
Above is a recorded post-screening conversation between invited guests Elaine Drainville, Mwenza Blell, Lindsay Duncanson, and artist Andrew Wilson.
The screening and conversation took place from SIDE Cinema and was facilitated by SIDE Cinema programme curator Dawn Felicia Knox.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions we were unable to welcome a full audience within the cinema. The screening and discussion were however live-streamed reactivating the cinema, for the first time since the pandemic, as a place of connection and collective conversation.
THIS TRUST IDEA is a co-commission between:
Allenheads Contemporary Arts Call Centre residency
The Star and Shadow Cinema Micro Projects
