Decolonising Cinema
It's time for a new film course series! This series focuses on the interaction between processes of decolonisation and cinema.
Since the revolutionary 1960's, film directors have increasingly seen film as a medium that can play a role in the process of decolonisation, as well as a medium that still has to be decolonised itself. Dreams of independence and self-determination made cinema more militant and radical, turning it away from Hollywood and its perpetual dreamscape. In short: making films with a rock in one hand, and a camera in the other, as the authors of the radical manifesto "Towards a Third Cinema" (1969) wrote.
In this series, leading film professors, film makers and journalists examine the relationship between decolonisation and film through a case study in line with their specialisms. Geographic diversity was of huge importance in this selection. After an introductory lecture, the cases of Ireland, Kurdistan, Nigeria and Cuba will be featured. In their lecture, the speakers will draw on an exciting mix of film theory, analysis and history, and of course a wide variety of unforgettable clips from the film history of the country in question.
In collaboration with Lumière Cinema.
It is, next to registration for the whole series (see link in side box), also possible to register for individual lectures (see links behind lectures).
The individual lectures
3. Central America (Vanhaelemeesch / 17 April) registration lecture 3
This lecture was originally planned on 20 March, but the speaker was ill. It now takes place online via zoom. When you register you receive the link.
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Lumière Cinema
Date
Monday 6, 13, and 27 March, 3 April and 17 April – 19:30 to 21:30
Costs whole series / individual lectures
UM students €10 / €2,50
(Former) UM employees and students from other schools €25 / €6,25
Others €50 / €12,50
Registration
You can register here for the whole series.
See links next to the titles for registration for the individual lectures.
About the speakers
Dr. Asli Özgen-Havekotte
Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Dr. Lennart Soberon
Researcher, Ghent University
Dr. Jasper Vanhaelemeesch
Lecturer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Beri Shalmashi
Film Maker and critic
Lyse Nsengiyumva
Film Curator
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