Decolonising Filmic Experience

Description

Decolonising Filmic Experience: Workshop 1 on distribution and exhibition

Decolonising Filmic Experience is an attempt to bring together interested parties around the topic of decolonisation, as it pertains to accessing film viewing, making, exhibition, distribution and education. Each workshop intends to inquire: to what extent does decolonisation as a discourse penetrate the social worlds in which film circulates? How is filmic experience being utilised or reconfigured to frame such encounters? And, what is the relationship between decolonising discourses and anti-colonial movements, internationally?



This first workshop is concerned with decolonisation in film exhibition and distribution and will feature a keynote presentation by T A P E Collective, a film programming, distribution and education group, doing vital work in and around this area. T A P E was founded in 2015 by Angela Moneke and Isra Al Kassi as a response to the under-representation of minority groups on screen and in the film industries. Since its launch, T A P E has gone on to run educational and curatorial workshops, commission cutting-edge writing, provide consultation services to industry leaders and launch its own streaming platform. T A P E have distributed critically acclaimed films in recent years, including If the Streets Were on Fire, Lingua Franca and Bye Bye Tiberias.



Workshop 1 is now open for registration. The event will take place between 10am-4pm on Wednesday 8th May 2024 at the University of Hertfordshire. A programme will be shared with registered attendees, soon. The event is free and includes lunch.



Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about the event.



Programme

10.00: Registration

10.30: Welcome (Dr James Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire)

11.00-11.50: Panel 1: Decolonising Chinese cinemas

· Decolonising film curation through Reimagining “China”: A Programme for a Film Festival/University Classroom (Dr How Wee Ng, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Westminster)

· Decolonising the Curation of Asian Cinemas (Dr Lydia Wu, NUAcT Fellow - Culture and Creative Arts, Newcastle University)

12-12.50: Panel 2: Postcolonial Sites of Exhibition

· Open-Air Cinemas in Spanish Africa: Decolonizing Histories of Film Exhibition and Consumption (Antonio Rivera Arnaldos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

· Postcolonialism and neoliberalism in Isaac Julien’s retrospective at the Tate (Ben Stoll, Royal Holloway, University of London)

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-14.50: Keynote: Reppin could-be-cult-classics (Isra Al Kassi, T A P E Collective)

15.00-15.30: Panel 3: Decolonising and Indigenising Film Festival Research: Methodological Reflections (Dr Estrella Sendra, Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education, Kings College London and Dr Sheila Petty, Professor of Media Studies, University of Regina)

15.30: Closing words and open floor

16.00: End

Period	8 May 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	Hertford, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International