"Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema", curated by Sun-Ju Choi & Feng Mei Heberer
“Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema” | Colonial history is not in the past. It also shapes memory and knowledge in the present, how we remember and what we (can) know.
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KEY VISUAL WAS BLEIBT!!
A historiography that normalizes and makes invisible destruction and exploitation through official, hegemonic narratives needs to be revised from the perspective of post-colonial cultural productions:
cultural works that open up and reimagine the space of possibilities of what we can see, understand and articulate and how people relate to one another.
The film series Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema takes exactly this as its theme. It sheds light on the Asia-Pacific region as one of the previously little-noticed places of various, overlapping forms of colonization.
The focus is on works by Asian diasporic filmmakers who, in and from the ambivalence of diasporic positioning - both as part of and in contradiction with homogenizing national-ethnic and patriarchal-heteronormative belonging policies - open up alternatives to common colonial knowledge.
Through their playful and sometimes risky way, they break down genre categories and place a marginalized repertoire of knowledge at the center.
In four screenings and subsequent discussions with the filmmakers, diaspora is negotiated as a condition of possibility for critical-creative, decolonial memory work and cultural practice.
Info: Filmmakers will be present at all four screenings or will be connected digitally to the subsequent film discussion.
Dates
December 2024
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