The Last Responders

This event centres on a screening of The Last Responders, a 50-minute investigative documentary, followed by a conversation with critical voices involved in gathering, shaping and building innovative methodologies and technologies for investigative work. Together they will discuss what it means to uncover forcefully buried stories and truths, and how the case has been reconstructed.

On 23 March 2025 in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, Israeli forces massacred fifteen Palestinian aid workers travelling in clearly marked humanitarian vehicles, later burying their bodies and vehicles in a shallow mass grave. Earshot and Forensic Architecture worked with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and survivors of the massacre to reconstruct the incident with unprecedented precision.

The Last Responders is an investigative documentary about this massacre. Anchored in the situated testimonies of two survivors, the film draws on firsthand video and voice recordings captured during the night of the attack by the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Through these materials, the film probes acts of execution and concealment, while reconstructing a fuller account of what unfolded in Tel al-Sultan in the hours and days that followed.

The Last Responders is a collaboration between Earshot and Forensic Architecture. Earshot is a not-for-profit organisation producing audio-led investigations for human rights and environmental advocacy, bringing advanced audio forensic analysis to open-source investigations and foregrounding the often-overlooked evidentiary power of sound. Forensic Architecture is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, developing new techniques and methodologies for investigating state and corporate violence through spatial, architectural and media analysis.

Doors open at 2.30pm; event starts at 3pm and finishes at 5pm.