Apologies for cross posting:
On 18th November at 6pm the Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image will be showing my documentary film Lovers in Time or How We didn't get arrested in Harare (2015), followed by the book launch of Black and White: cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe as well as Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable edited by myself and Ben Tyrer (Essex), both just published by Routledge. The the Unrepresentable collection comprises contributions from acclaimed international scholars and clinicians (in alphabetical order): Anna Backman Rogers, Birthe Nikolajsen Gregersen, Thomas Elsaesser, Carin Franzen, Marie Hagelskjær, Annie Hardy, Elizabeth Hughes, Yaelle Malpertu, John Miller, Pia Siegler Lathrop, Per Roar, Richard Rushton and of course the editors.
After the film there will be a discussion about the film and the books, focusing on the relationship between theory and practice. The debate will be led by Professor Thomas Elsaesser, Columbia, with the participation of Professor Diana Jeater, Goldsmiths College, Dr Winston Mano, Westminster University and Dr William Brown, Roehampton University. Professor Valerie Walkerdine kindly said the following about the Black and White monograph:
‘Agnieszka Piotrowska comes to Zimbabwe as ‘the subject supposed to know’ –a position of privilege, albeit unwanted, stemming from her whiteness, undermined by her gender. She interrogates her own experience, attempting to refuse the place of the knowledge, to engage with what it means to tell a story without claiming to know. Beyond black and white, she peers into the grey – the unrepresentable, coming to the recognition that she cannot know, because knowing is so compromised, that engaging with it is challenging, raw, visceral. That she approaches this not knowing through an arts practice is paramount – it is the work together, the embodied creative work of making, that allows the unrepresentable to begin to make its painful emergence. A brave and important book.’ - Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, UK
There will be a wine reception following the screening and a discussion. More information is below. Please book your place at the eventbrite registration as usual.
This event is a collaborative venture between the BIMI, the University of Bedfordshire and the Psychoanalysis in Our Time network.
Please note that the event appears to be fully booked but there has been some cancellations so you can email me directly if you would like to come.
Kind regards
Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska
Reader in Film Practice and Theory
Course Leader MA/MSc Digital Film
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, LU1 3JU, UK