Dekoloniale Filmreihe im Sinema Transtopia

"Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema" | Colonial history is not in the past. It also shapes memory and knowledge in the present, how we remember and what we (can) know.
A historiography that normalizes and renders destruction and exploitation invisible through official, hegemonic narratives needs to be revised from the perspective of postcolonial cultural productions: cultural works that open up and re-imagine the space of possibility of what we can see, understand and articulate and how we relate to each other.
The film series Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema takes precisely this as its theme. It sheds light on the Asia Pacific region as one of the hitherto little-noticed sites of various overlapping forms of colonization. The focus is on works by Asian-diasporic filmmakers who open up alternatives to conventional colonial knowledge in and from the ambivalence of diasporic positioning - both as part of and in contradiction to homogenizing national-ethnic and patriarchal-heteronormative policies of belonging.
Through their playful and sometimes risky approach, they break open genre categories and focus on a marginalized repertoire of knowledge.
In four screenings, each followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, diaspora will be negotiated as a condition of possibility for critical-creative, decolonial memory work and cultural practice.
Info: Filmmakers will be present at all four screenings or digitally connected to the subsequent film discussion.
Venue:Sinema TranstopiaLindower Str. 20/2213347 Berlin
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Price: €7.00

Next date:

• Date Tuesday, 12/November/2024 19:00 bis 20:30 (3 more dates)
• Venue Sinema Transtopia
• Address Lindower Straße 20, 13347 Berlin-Wedding