Massive Attack Release Short Film 'Saturday Come Slow'

Massive Attack Release Short Film 'Saturday Come Slow'

19 March, 2010
by: Spoonfed Live Music Team

Massive Attack and Damon Albarn collaborate on short Film.

Massive Attack’s short film 'Saturday Come Slow', featuring vocals from Damon Albarn, explores the use and effect of sound on the human body and its use as a torture technique.

Within the film's eight minutes, Ruhal Ahmed, a Guantanamo Bay detainee, recounts his experiences of torture in which his interrogators would play non-stop heavy metal for two and a half days at a time, often using low quality speakers to create a distorted sound.

This is the fifth in a series of short films released by Massive Attack, alongside their latest album ‘Heligoland’. Directors Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin give the viewer a tiny insight into the horrors Ruhal must have experienced over the two and a half years he spent at the Cuban base. A powerful and haunting piece of film which makes the viewer think about how the things we take for granted, music, can be used in a terrifying way.

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