Please join us this Thursday evening for Menzies Screening #5: Echoes of Empire, the final Menzies Screening event of 2017/18, which rounds out a series of screenings and discussions that have taken a broad, critical approach to Australia’s place within international cinema landscapes.

In this final instalment, Menzies Screening convener Stephen Morgan will be in conversation with two London-based photographers and filmmakers - Saeed Taji Farouky and Sonal Kantaria - both of whose works touch upon the history and legacy of Empire, and who have each made short film works in collaboration with Aboriginal Australians. 

A brief introduction to their past work and the broader intersections of Empire, will be followed by a screening and discussion of the two films. Saeed's short drama They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy (2016) is a fictional account of an Indigenous Australian man (played by the late Yolngu/Murrungun actor Tom E. Lewis) who is invited to London for the Colonial Exhibition of 1886, where he has an unexpected encounter that brings home the reality of the colonial endeavour. Sonal's experimental film After the crow flies (2016) developed out of ongoing connections with Aboriginal Elders in Western Australia, and was made in collaboration with Clarrie Cameron, a Nhagardi Elder who navigates the viewer through the stark landscape of his traditional country whilst discussing the effect of colonisation on his peoples and on the shape of contemporary Australia. 

This free screening, discussion and Q&A will be held at 6:30pm on May 24, in the Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31 - King's Building) at the Strand Campus of King's College London, WC2R 2LS, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

 

Screenings Coordinator
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
King's College London