Bristol Docs presents
FIRST PERSON FILMS III
The Ethnic Self: First Person Plural
Screenings/Presentations Friday 23 February @ Watershed
Media Centre, 1 Canon’s Road, Bristol 10:00 hrs––17:00 hrs
Symposium Saturday 24 February @ The Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay,
Bristol 10:00hrs––17:00hrs
This third symposium in Bristol Docs’ series on First Person Films
is an exploration of the role of ethnicity and cultural identity in the
construction of contemporary first person film. First person films are
usually considered unique, personal, even idiosyncratic, expressions
of the self, yet they also reflect the cultural context and assumptions
that form and inform them. This symposium takes as its premise that
the autobiographical subject does not emerge out of thin air, but
rather is “subjectified” through a series of discursive regimes, culture
and ethnicity being perhaps the most pronounced. The symposium
asks, via an in-depth consideration of a series of contemporary first
person films from around the world: What is the nature of the interplay
between the individual and culture and how is this tension played out
in representational terms? How, or in what ways, can culture and
ethnicity be said to construct the first person character on screen?
Working against notions of the autonomous self, this symposium
will interrogate the ways in which culture and ethnicity may constitute
subjectivity. We will explore the ways in which that might complicate
notions of the individual, autochthonous, willful self, that
autobiography has often been seen to promote. What emerges
instead is a complex image of a relational subjectivity: not a first
person "singular" but a first person "plural".
Speakers Include:
Tina Bastajian (Filmmaker, Amsterdam) Garden Dwelling
Professor Chris Berry (Goldsmiths University)
Professor Michael Chanan (University of the West of England)
Dr. Elspeth kydd (University of the West of England)
Dr. Alisa Lebow (University of the West of England)
Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Screenings Include:
Nostalgia (Shu Haolun, China, 2005)
Garden Dwelling (Tina Bastajian, US/Turkey, 2004)
The Television and Me (Andrés Di Tella, Argentina, 2001)
In Her Own Time (Barbara Myerhoff, US, 1988)
Admission for all events: £35/£25 Conc.
To book tickets please contact Watershed
Box Office: 0117 9275100
See Arnolfini listings for our four part First Person Film screening series
leading up to the symposium — every Monday at 20:30hrs, 22 January - 13
February. Tickets £5/£4 Conc.
First Person Films Deal: Purchase tickets in advance for all 4 screenings
and get one ticket free.
For more information contact: Dr. Alisa Lebow: [log in to unmask]
For directions: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/about/gettinghere.php
Bristol Docs is an initiative to provide a focus for documentary in Bristol
and South West England, on the basis of a collaboration between the
University of Bristol and the University of the West of England. Bristol
Docs supports the study and teaching of documentary in Bristol, and
promotes interchange between filmmakers, scholars, students, media
professionals, and the community at large.
http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/bristoldocs/
This event is cosponsored by: Bristol Docs, University of the West of
England, University of Bristol, Watershed Media Centre and The Arnolfini.
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