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BELGISCHE CINEMA / BELGIAN CINEMA - Vlaamse Film / Flemish Film - Waalse Film / Walloon Film - Belgische Cinema / Belgian Cinema - Belgisch (Vl/W) Filmbeleid / Belgian Film policy FILM THEORIE / FILM THEORY - Verhouding filmmaker/film/filmcriticus / Relation filmmaker/film/filmcritic - Film als Ritueel/Film as Ritual - Film en Filosofie/ Film and Philosophy - Reflexiviteit in cinema / Reflexivity in Cinema - Postkoloniale film studies/ Postcolonial Film Studies o Captive Bodies: postcolonial subjectivity in cinema o Visual Difference: inter/trans/cultural cinema o French films on their colonial Empire o European cinema inside out: A Cross-cultural study o Cinema & Arjun Appardurai (Modernity at Large, 1996) o Cinema & Trinh Minh-Ha o Cinema & Fanon o Cinema & Stuart Hall (“New Ethnicities” in Black Film – British Cinema, 1989), o Cinema & Homi Bhabba (The Location of Culture, 1994) o Cinema & Laura U. Marks (The Skin of the Film, 2000) o Cinema & Robert Stam & Ella Shohat - Etnografische Filmtheorie / Etnographic Film theory WERELDCINEMA - Het concept wereldcinema herbekeken / Revisiting World Cinema - Afrikaanse Cinema (incl. Noord-Afrika) / African Cinema (incl. North Africa) - Congolese cinema - Nollywood - Israel/Palestine - Third Cinema - Militant- & Engaged cinema - Migration-, Diaspora & “exile” cinema - Black Cinema (U.S. / G.B. / FR) - Colonial film / “empire cinema” - Postkoloniale film / Postcolonial Film - Film & negritude, panafricanism, tricontinentalism, créolisation, west-Indies… ANDERE / OTHER - Film & Beeldende kunst / Film & Visual Arts - Film & Iconografie/Iconologie / Film & Iconography - ology - Visuele cultuur & museologie / Visual Culture and Museology - Archieffilms en filmarchieven / Archive-films and film archives - Making-of - Filmrepresentaties van Slavernij / Slavery and Film
Dreams, Night Visions and Decolonial Aspirations in Eastern DRC: Researching Pluriversal Cosmovisions in Conflict-Affected Environments.
Abstract
Taking dreams seriously, this project aims to articulate alternative ways of 'understanding the world' in conflict-affected environments. Knowledges produced about peace interventions have long been articulated around responses to root causes and symptoms of violence. Increasingly conflict studies acknowledge limitations of peace interventions due to their western-centric logics. Conflict-ridden South Kivu is an emblematic example in which extensive peace interventions had limited success in sustaining peace. Interrogating and nuancing Western articulations, the project will document different ways of experiencing violence and understanding the cosmos (the world). Re-assessing the dreamlife responds to the urgent need to appreciate alternative ways of knowing violence and managing peacebuilding that do not align with dominant peacebuilding approaches. Across time and regions, dreams have been associated with activities such as journeys the mind takes out of the body, communications with the dead, malign desires from a third party, dialogues with the subconscious, and neurological phenomena. The well-known but often neglected fluid, sensorial, bodily, spiritual dimensions of dreams will be mobilized to discuss underlying pluriversalism. Building on feminist and decolonial scholarship, the project is motivated by decolonial aspirations, and is dedicated to theoretical and empirical examinations of pluriversal - rather than universal – cosmovisions of dreams and violence.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: De Groof Matthias
- Promoter: Titeca Kristof
- Co-promoter: Van Hecken Gert
- Fellow: Jamar Astrid
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- Research Project
Ecofilm Congo: Practices of environmental relations through media-activism in Goma, DR Congo.
Abstract
Increasingly, environmental films from the Global South – circulating everywhere from small screens to major film festivals – have proved to be empowering, as they are used as tools for advocacy. However, despite their potential to raise global awareness, they remain unexamined in academia. Rethinking the environmental crisis from within the humanities and social sciences needs to include experience-based perspectives from the Global South. My project takes the DR Congo as a case-in-point. How does environmental filmmaking from the DR Congo expose abuses and reflect upon the uneven distribution of the environmental crisis? In this project, I will research their alternative understandings of the causes of the crisis and how they articulate worldviews as responses to it. To do this, I will implement decolonial perspectives on environmental humanities within film studies and acquire innovative research skills.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Kolinjivadi Vijay Krishnan
- Co-promoter: De Groof Matthias
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- Research Project
Belgian cinema from a postcolonial perspective. An interdisciplinary study of interculturality in Belgian cinema from 1960 till now with a focus on Belgian representations of Congo.
Abstract
The main objective of the research project is to analyze Belgian cinema – particularly those films dealing with our former colonies and intercultural films – through the postcolonial lens, and so (1) to dialogically contribute to both cinema studies and postcolonial studies and (2) to contribute to the historiography of Belgian cinema.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Meers Philippe
- Co-promoter: Pauwels Luc
- Fellow: De Groof Matthias
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- Research Project