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Accepted Film:
Film short abstract:
An investigation of how place attachment is negotiated in relation to memory and experience through the transnational stories of a Roma sister and brother.
Film long abstract:
This short film was part of the director's final project towards the completion of an MA in Visual Anthropology at University of Manchester. The film makes use of both the conventional settings of talking heads interviews as well as the more participatory techniques of organising and filming creative workshops with the participants in order to showcase a rather abstract topic: the emotional geographies of transnational Roma people. By zooming in on how place attachments are negotiated and renegotiated in relation to memory and personal experience the film highlights the participants vastly different approaches towards choosing where to live despite the two of them sharing the same family and background.
The research methodology- highlighting potentialities of intersecting different techniques in ethnographic filmmaking, as well as the films focus on how people approach questions of migration and return migration in the context of personal struggle and changing circumstances engage the theme of 'Navigating Critical Junctions'.
| Title (original): | Of sisters and brothers |
| Duration (minutes): | 24 |
| Country(ies) of filming: | Romania |
| Country of production: | United Kingdom |
| Language(s): | Romanian, English |
| Year of Production: | 2024 |
| Director(s): | Oxana Bischin |
| Director(s)' short bio-filmography: | Oxana Bischin is a first time filmmaker. She has graduated with an MA in Visual Anthropology in 2023 from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at University of Manchester with her final project being represented by a short documentary -'Of sisters and brothers'. Her first film explores the emotional geographies of two Roma siblings. Previously she dedicated her time to community engagement work and her creative practice. As a photographer she has exhibited her work internationally including in the UK and Austria and was awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council in 2021 to produce new work. After this she has focused on integrating aspects of her creative practice within larger research projects such as University of Birmingham’s ‘Post-Socialist Britain?’- an investigation into how memory influences political identity in the context of migration. Regarding her first documentary, a case study based on it will be enclosed in the book 'In other words: Opening Research to Creative Practices' which will be published by Presses Universitaires de Nanterre in late 2025. |
| Producer/Production company: | N/A |
| Previous screenings: | none |
| Website or link for other info: | https://www.oxanabischin.com/of-sisters-and-brothers |
| Link to trailer (if available): | https://www.oxanabischin.com/of-sisters-and-brothers |
| Technical requirements: | landscape, 16:9 |
Navigating Critical Junctions