The New Ten Commandments
2008, English. Directed by Douglas Gordon & Alice Nelson & David Graham Scott & Doug Aubrey & Nick Higgins & Mark Cousins & Kenneth Glenaan & Tilda Swinton & Sana Bilgrami & Anna Jones & Irvine Welsh.
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film. The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments 1. The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Dir, David Graham Scott 2. The Right not to be enslaved - Dir, Nick Higgins 3. The Right to a fair trial - Dir, Sana Bilgrami 4. The Right to freedom of expression - Dir, Doug Aubrey 5. The Right to life - Dir, Kenny Glenaan 6. The Right to liberty - Dir, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins 7. The Right not to be tortured - Dir, Douglas Gordon 8. The Right to asylum - Dir, Anna Jones 9. The Right to privacy - Dir, Alice Nelson 10. The Right to freedom of thought - Dir, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton.
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Douglas GordonDirector
- Alice NelsonDirector
- David Graham ScottDirector
- Doug AubreyDirector
- Nick HigginsDirector
- Mark CousinsDirector
- Kenneth GlenaanDirector
- Tilda SwintonDirector
- Sana BilgramiDirector
- Anna JonesDirector
- Irvine WelshDirector
- Tilda SwintonSelf
- Mark CousinsSelf
- Aamer AnwarSelf
- Jim SwireSelf
- Tony BlairSelf (archive footage)
- Gordon BrownSelf (archive footage)
- Martin CompstonSelf (archive footage)
- Peter DowSelf
- John MajorSelf (archive footage)
- Ewan McGregorSelf (archive footage)
- Kenny RicheySelf (archive footage)
- J.K. RowlingSelf (archive footage)
Details
- Released
- 2 January 2008
- Country
- United Kingdom
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The New Ten Commandments (2008) was directed by Douglas Gordon and Alice Nelson and David Graham Scott and Doug Aubrey and Nick Higgins and Mark Cousins and Kenneth Glenaan and Tilda Swinton and Sana Bilgrami and Anna Jones and Irvine Welsh and stars Tilda Swinton, Mark Cousins, Aamer Anwar.