Final reminder: The Research Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture at the University of Wolverhampton warmly invites you to a public lecture and film screening by:
Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska: Fiction and Fortuity in the Service of Truth?
Lovers in Time: film screening
Wednesday 1 June 2016, 5pm - 7.30pm
Millennium City Building - MC001, City Campus
About the film:
‘Lovers in Time intertwines colonialism, race, gender, identity with the ‘return of the repressed’, in a tale of love and retribution, forgiveness and the quest for justice, set in today’s Harare, among Zimbabwe’s educated younger generation. All of it makes Lovers in Time not only a timely political film, full of high spirits and good humour, but also haunted by spirits from darker times and desperate acts. An unusually riveting example of the “essay film”, Lovers in Time embodies a special kind of historical reflexivity, presented across several layers of subjectivity.’ (Elsaesser 2015)
About the speaker:
Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska will mainly discuss the practice research context of her academic and artistic work. She is an acclaimed theorist and an award winning documentary filmmaker, who uses psychoanalysis and philosophy alongside her creative practice research. She is probably best known for her award winning documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower. Her current work, both practice and theory has focused on post-colonial relationships in Zimbabwe. In addition to her documentaries she has recently turned her attention to fiction and has just completed shooting her first feature also in Zimbabwe. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film, editor of Embodied Encounters: New Approaches to Psychoanalysis and Cinema, and co-editor of Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable. Piotrowska's new book Black and White: Cinema, Politics and the Arts in Zimbabwe will be published by Routledge in September. She is a Reader in Film Theory and Practice at the University of Bedfordshire.
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