Kenta McGrath

Call to Account is a protest film produced in the lead-up to Human Rights Week in 2015, devised by Suvendrini Perera and Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites (RAPBS). The work focuses on people from various walks of life reading out charge sheets – in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle – and calling the Australian Government to account for perpetrating human rights violations against asylum seekers and refugees. I edited the 17-minute version of the film and shot the segments in Fremantle. More information about the project can be found on Perera’s Deathscapes project site.

Select Screenings
Gillian Triggs Inaugural Curtin University Human Rights Lecture
Performance of the Real (University of Otago)
Visualising Human Rights Conference
Affective Shifts Symposium (UNSW)

Produced by
Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites (RAPBS)

Organisers
Janet Galbraith
Suvenderini Perera
Joseph Pugliese

Filming (Sydney)
Iqbal Barkat
Diane Busuttil
Marcus Eckermann
Vincent Tay

Filming (Melbourne)
Steve Thomas and students

Filming (Fremantle)
Kenta McGrath
Antonio Traverso

Editors
Kenta McGrath
Janos Zoltan

Post-Production Supervisor
Steve Thomas