Wednesday, April 14, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
OCL Virtual Event
Event Type
Conference & Symposia
Contact
Weissinger, James R
Department
Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities
Link
https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=92025
Visions for Liberation: Third Cinema Revisited
2021 Mellon Symposium
April 14-16
Haverford College
Full schedule at http://hav.to/visionsforliberation
Wednesday, April 14
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Puerto Rican Documentary Filmmakers: Works from La Isla a La Diáspora
Veteran filmmakers Nadia Halgren, Karen Rossi, and Gisela Rosaio Ramos reflect on the representation of Puerto Ricans in documentary stateside and on the island. They consider how their identity has influenced their documentary work in front and behind the camera, and where they see Puerto Rican documentary cinema going forward.
About Visions for Liberation
The symposium Visions for Liberation: Third Cinema Revisited explores the global resonances of the Third Cinema movement in the ‘here and now’ and asks how it renders for us a ‘there and then’ across its expansive contexts. Each panel of the symposium articulates how cinema is responding to the global and local sociopolitical concerns from which it emerges, and what kinds of calls to action are being made and to whom. Women and non-binary filmmakers from Palestine, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Third spaces across the U.S. share their work and thoughts on a Third Cinema revisited and reinvented. In the spirit of Solanas and Getino’s inspired question, first posed on the pages of Tricontinental in Cuba, how, in the era of Netflix and DSLR and Vimeo, has Third Cinema continued to be the most important revolutionary artistic event of our times?
Organized by Elena Guzman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies at Haverford, along with Ethnocine Collective: Emily Hong, Miasarah Lai, Laura Menchaca Ruiz, Mariangela Mihai. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College, and Ethnocine Collective.