Conversation about films Altered Landscapes (2016) and The People behind the Scenes (2019)

  • Juan del Gado Qisetna, United Kingdom
  • Elsa Claire Gomis University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Keywords: Film, Refugees, Mediterranean, Representation, Migration

Abstract

This is a conversation between Juan del Gado and Elsa Gomis about their respective films. Juan del Gado has made the film Altered Landscapes (2016), which is the first part of a cinematically projected triptych entitled Drifting Narratives. Elsa Gomis has produced the film The People behind the Scenes (2019), a full length film, which builds on interviews and memory work and address current visual representations of migration by the Mediterranean.

References

Giannari, N. & Didi-Huberman G. (2017). Passer quoi qu’il en coûte. Paris : Minuit.
Manea, N. (2012). The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Mondzain, M-J. (2011). Images (à suivre). Paris : Bayard.
Published
2019-12-07
Issue
Vol 4 No 2 (2019): Artistic Strategies of Migration: Art as a Resistance or as a Reinsurance? - Guest Editors, Erik Berggren & Elsa Claire Gomis
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