On 27 May, Centre for Visual Cultures director James Williams took part in a webinar hosted by Film Quarterly, considering the range of new documentary expressions, from participatory documentary to essayistic and experimental approaches, that have emerged in the wake of Europe’s refugee crisis.
Still from Purple Sea by Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed (Germany, 2020)
The webinar asked: how do refugee filmmakers and co-creators challenge conventional documentary forms in their efforts to convey the experience of displacement and the consequences of movement?
Christian Rossipal, who explored these issues in his essay for the Spring 2021 edition of Film Quarterly, led a discussion with Amel Alzakout, co-director of Purple Sea (2020), and Dagmawi Yimer, director of Asmat (2015). James Williams, who is a Film Quarterly contributing editor and editor of Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema (2020), also joined the conversation, with Film Quarterly editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich moderating.
The webinar is now available to view on Vimeo.
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