Neil Roberts
"WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RESEMBLING STUPIDITY"
17/11/2023
that time of year
taken by Mary Bryan, 18/11/82
5 Eyes
Remember Remember the 18th of November.
- Vale Neil
almost that time of year again
strange planet
17/11/2020
this still stands as much today as it did then.
taken by Mary Bryan, 18/11/82
17/11/2020
18th November.. we do..
13/05/2020
Melbourne Oi band “No Class”
No Class Neil Roberts No Class: Melbourne based Oi! Rock 'n' Roll 2017 R.I.P. Neil Roberts
11/05/2020
The Maintenance of Silence was released in 1985 by New Zealand artist and film maker William Keddell.
The Maintenance of Silence traces Neil Robert’s movements and motivations, informed by the Keddell’s conversations with the young man’s friends and family. Keddell concluded Roberts was intelligent, highly literate, politically aware and not the manic depressive he was portrayed as in the media. Keddell’s film hoped to question the political dimensions of the act and what the graffiti statement actually meant.
The Maintenance of Silence received the Critics' Choice in both the Los Angeles Times and the L.A. Weekly.
Maintenance of Silence The Maintenance of Silence (New Zealand, 1985) DV, PG, 22 mins On November 18 1982, a 22-year old Aucklander, Neil Roberts, daubed a washroom wall with the graffiti…