Thursday, December 9, 2021
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (ET)
OCL Online Event
Event Type
Film
Contact
Weissinger, James R
Department
Hurford Center for Arts & Humanities
Link
https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=93623
The Contest in Context: Storytelling, Self-Ethnography, and Solidarity: Uyghur Film in Focus
Thursday, December 9, 2021 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Online Event
Free with RSVP:
https://hchc.ticketleap.com/the-contest-storytelling-ethnography/
Join us for a virtual screening program and discussion on contemporary Uyghur film culture with directors Suli Kurban and Memtjan Semet, moderated by Anthropologist Darren Byler and Project Liaison Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein.
The conversation will consider the challenges faced by and present the great work coming from contemporary Uyghur filmmakers. The program ranges from self-ethnographic works set in the region and films created in the diaspora with Uyghur subjects, to work that represent the bonds Uyghurs are creating with other stateless peoples. The films will be available online for two weeks preceding the event.
Filmmakers featured in the program: Aziz Asman, Tahir Hamut Izgil, Suli Kurban, Mukaddas Mijit, Memetjan Semet, and Dimurat Tohti & Abdukadirjan Upur.
This event is part of The Contest of the Fruits Exhibits & Events and the The Contest in Context virtual event series. This event will take place virtually via Zoom. A login link will be emailed to you prior to event.
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The Contest of the Fruits takes a nineteenth-century Uyghur allegorical poem as the point of departure for investigations into language, politics, religion, humor, resilience, and resistance in a pluralistic world. It includes a virtual series, publication, new animation work, and exhibition at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery by renowned artist collective Slavs and Tatars in partnership with Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Twelve Gates Arts, and the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Philadelphia.
The Contest of the Fruits exhibit runs from September 10th - December 12, 2021. All exhibits and events are free and open to the public. For full schedule details and locations, visit: exhibits.haverford.edu/thecontestofthefruits/exhibits-and-events/. If you have any questions, please email: michelle@wittygritty.com.
The Contest of the Fruits is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.