Masterpeace: Music above Fighting

On May 4th 2012, MasterPeace, based in Cairo and Utrecht, officially launched its first global mini-documentary, ‘Music above Fighting’. This documentary tells the story of three conflicts, where two people from the different sides come together to sing ‘Imagine’ of John Lennon near a separating wall. The conflict areas represented in the documentary are Belfast in Ireland, the border area between Indian and Pakistan, and Jerusalem, at the border between Israel and Palestine. The camera moves along with people who are separated from their neighbors by a wall. It shows how deconstructive the wall is, both mentally and physically. It is a story of people who try to live and communicate through music, a language that goes beyond bombs, fighting and differences. 

'Music above Fighting' portrays the vision of MasterPeace with photographic shots, focusing on its major goal to involve people in peace building. As peace building is a verb, MasterPeace wants to mobilize millions of people everywhere around the world to put music above fighting. Through different initiatives, MasterPeace is focusing on peace building in the broadest sense, including (social) sustainability, the reduction of (nuclear) weaponry and (armed) conflicts.