Goldsmiths Anthropology Seminar Series: Documentary, art practice and their empathic misadventures

Beskrivning

What are the losses when cultural producers solicit empathy from viewers? If we are to avoid a cinema or art practice of liberalism, what form, tone, timbre should our input as cultural producers take? Filmmaker, film programmer and writer Minou Norouzi reflects on the creative-theoretical process of developing her essay film On the Tenderness of Men and contextualizes this work-in-progress in relation to her research on the role of empathy in representing migrant and intercommunal ‘Others’. She borrows the ethical framework defined in documentary scholarship as reflexive filmmaking to instigate a shift towards reflexive film viewing. Unsettling well-trodden discourses on the ethics of representation her work puts at the centre the ethical obligation of viewers. Its core proposition is the development of viewing cultures that recognize the pitfalls of empathic engagement and the means to navigate out of this by engaging viewers through refracted, multivocal communication and visuality.

Period	16 nov. 2022
Vid	Goldsmiths, University of London, Storbritannien
Omfattning	Internationell