Documentary Screening ‘The People Behind the Scenes’
22 May: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM,
Maison Française, 2 – 10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
http://www.mfo.cnrs.fr/calendar/film-screening-the-people-behind-the-scenes/
Directed by Elsa Gomis, University of East Anglia
Convenor: Thomas Lacroix, MFO
Documentary screening followed by a discussion with:
Ruben Andersson, Oxford Dept. of International Development
Robin Wilson, Keble College
“When asked in July 2015 about migrants trying to reach Britain through Calais, former British Prime Minister David Cameron described a ‘swarm of people crossing the Mediterranean in search of a better life’. These words, condemned by his opponents who saw them as dehumanizing language, reflect the content of the campaign that led to Brexit. They are imbued with images that colour the Western imagination of migration. My film aims to question these images by showing the collective unconscious of maritime migration. Borrowing from visual anthropology but as a homo pictor: a being who shapes images, who produces images and who understands the world in images (Belting 2011). Consequently, the visual representations that deal with migration are considered as a framework for understanding current migration policies.”
Elsa Gomis
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