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- Convenors:
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Frances Wilkins
(University of Aberdeen)
Brenna Shay Quinton (University of Aberdeen)
Mary Stratman (Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen)
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- Format:
- Film
- Location:
- Film room
- Sessions:
- Tuesday 3 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
The Society for International Ethnology and Folklore invites film submissions to be screened or presented during its 17th Congress, which will be held in Aberdeen, Scotland from the 3rd to the 6th of June 2025.
Long Abstract:
For the film programme, we encourage submissions that engage with the process of unwriting, challenge hegemonic frameworks which limit us to predetermined paths and casually accepted paradigms. Ethnologists, folklorists, cultural and social anthropologists, and representatives of related disciplines (e.g. urban planning, architecture, design) and institutions (museums, archives, etc.), as well as filmmakers and other artists (e.g., photographers, sound designers) are encouraged to submit film proposal for screening and discussion during the conference.
Accepted film:
Session 4Film short abstract:
This fictional documentary was created through a collaborative process with contemporary migrants who embody and appropriate European emigration stories of the past and combine them with their own migratory experiences.
Film long abstract:
This fictional documentary was created through a collaborative process with contemporary migrants who embody and appropriate European emigration stories of the past and combine them with their own migratory experiences. A poetic and political film, in which autobiographical tales, archives and dreams of the past and the present, blend to evoke a sensory and epic experience.
Locked up and hidden in a truck, eight contemporary migrants from various countries try to survive the hunger and anguish of a long illegal journey across borders. Little by little, in the darkness of the lorry trailer, they get to know each other and share their life stories.
But the stories they tell are not only their own journeys, but also personal stories of a century ago from European emigrants (Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Belgium). This film articulates many resonances between past and present migrations, and reveals how historical amnesia is alive in our perception of migration.
| Title (original): | We others |
| Duration (in minutes): | 90 |
| Language(s): | Arabic, Pashtu, Tigrinya, Farsi, English, French, Dutch |
| Director(s): | Laurent Van Lancker |
| Producer/Production company: | Roue Libre |