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Telling Stories: Filmmaking and Academic Research

Sun, April 30, 12:00 to 1:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Workshop

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This workshop brings together scholar-filmmakers who have embryonic, in-process, or completed research-led films. We are interested in probing the filmmaking process and exploring the tensions it generates for scholarly research by addressing practical and theoretical concerns, different modes of fieldwork, critical inquiry, and visual and narrative methodologies. Research-led filmmaking raises questions about the procedures and materials available to construct personal and collective histories. It might allow for a new understanding of the materiality of the visual and its uneven political and psychic sedimentations in present-day responses and contestations. With this in mind, the workshop creates a space to consider how films and filmmaking help us grasp historical processes and forms of consciousness, which might otherwise be inaccessible.

We ask: How could oral histories, fictions, and archival records help to resolve frozen or protracted political conflicts, along with their residual spaces and dissonant remembrances? How does storytelling shape processes of reconciliation and transitional justice and possibly allow alternative writings of history? How do subjective experiences of political and epistemic violence and their respective material latencies become tangible? And how does visual storytelling make palpable the less perceptible affects of these residual spaces and their settling into social ecologies, which in academic research remain opaque? Through these questions, the workshop seeks to address creative human rights, political history and poetic form, public and private memories, and finally storytelling as site for the production and circulation of historical understanding and civil imaginations.

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