The Nobody's Listening Project
Posted on: 13/03/2023
‘The Nobody’s Listening Project’ came in for the day. The project is fully funded by the Home Office and is aimed at informing students about the Yazidi Genocide. It aims to reflect on the impact that the events on 2014 had on individual Yazidi people and consider the motives of those who perpetrated genocidal attacks.
Students were invited to take part in a virtual reality experience.
'Nobody’s Listening: The Forgotten Voices of Sinjar. This room-scale interactive experience transports viewers to northern Iraq using a blend of 360-degree documentary film-making, stunning Yazidi artwork and the latest virtual reality technology. A unique branching narrative set in Kocho village, Sinjar, enables users to hear from a young Yazidi woman abducted and sexually enslaved by ISIS, from her brother who survives a massacre, and from an ISIS fighter who attacks the village.'
Students were engaged by the talk and felt great sadness for the yazidi people.
'I only heard about it today and I am shocked...we were put in the shoes of those who had suffered, who lost their families and it was very emotional.'
'The VR experience really opened my eyes to the catastrophe that happened to the yazidi people, including the women and children and how their homes were distroyed.It was hearbreaking...'
