Si Mitchell is a journalist and filmmaker from the social justice frontline. His work has been published in all forms of the itinerant and less-itinerant press.
His films have been screened, stolen, imitated and cited in court cases and bar fights from Aberavon to Al Mukalla.
Nato’s Radioactive War
As the effects of depleted uranium bombing in the Gulf become undeniable, Nato comes under fire for waging ‘nuclear war’ in the Balkans.
Crowd Bites Wolf
Last of the Guerillavision fire-starters. World Bank/IMF meeting Prague, September 2000.
Capitals Ill
Mobilisation against the Worl Bank and IMF, Washington DC April 2000.
Big Rattle in Seattle
November 30 1999 blockade against the World Trade Organisation, Seattle USA.
Bullet
Watch five and a half millimeters of NATO Standard Issue part hair, skin and skull. See soft cerebellum liquefy and hollow point steel fragment. Witness shards of metal and bone as they spin through cortex and colliculus and wonder at the bullet’s rotational shock...
The Road to Prague
‘It would take an Ecuadorian family 25 years to earn what the World Bank president does in a year.’
Joe Plant Gallery Installation Video
From Joe’s East Gallery show, Brick Lane June 2011.
Imelda May – Queen of the Liberties
She’s the hip-swinging, bodhran-pounding, shaking, rattling, rolling uncrowned-queen of Dublin’s south side who took the Grammys by storm.
Here We Are Nowhere
“If the Clash are bored of London, they should come to Belfast.” Stiff Little Fingers – Classic Rock mag 2007.
Ain’t No Barbie Dalle
Brody Dalle and The Distillers. Cover feature Total Guitar mag 2004.
Democracy’s Over
Why we don’t need politicians and can we create a real democracy from the ashes of electoral politics? The Big Issue 2001.
Imprisoned by Habit
From drugs to prison to homelessness, it’s an unbreakable cycle. Big Issue feature.