死亡队列

The Death Row is a short documentary about public reactions to the artistic act of 15 Afghan women who fight for women’s educational rights in the form of a performance. In south Afghanistan 15 schoolgirls were attacked by acid. Their guilt was going to school. To protest against systematic suppression against women’s education in Afghanistan, 15 female artists stand in silence with their mourning costumes in central Kabul. They do this to draw attention to the request for women’s education. The action creates interaction among the spectators. This is the first time in Afghanistan that a group of women are encouraged to perform such as this in public. In a country that is threatened every day by possible suicide attacks from fundamentalist groups, a protest gathering especially for women’s rights can be an effective step towards paving the way for democratization in post-Taliban Afghanistan. But as it turns out, this will not be easy. Dark images from more than 3 decades of violence have closed peoples eyes so that preconception and forejudge wont allow them to approach the message of the act.