Lecturer, Thinking With Women Filmmakers of the “Global South”, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
In this course, we view Films as Philosophy and in relation to contemporary politics and culture. Films themselves are the primary texts, studied in relation to theoretical writings.
This class critically examines the role of films in shaping our sense of global, national, and local cultures and identities. The film examples explored range from cult Masterpieces to more popular mainstream works. Together, we will watch and analyze films’ aesthetics, the institutional context of production, global circulation, and situate them within a larger theoretical framework to help us find an answer to this question: why we haven’t heard of these Filmmakers already?
Students will also be familiarized with resources/platforms through which they can continue their own journey in the cinema of the aforementioned regions.
The films screened in this course:
· Son of the sun by Tanya Traboulsi (24’30’’, 2021, Lebanon)
· The taste of ashes by Davina Maria Khoury (17’, 2022, Lebanon)
· 5.49km by Yara Nashawaty (10’, 2024, Lebanon)
· I am glad the wind tore my camera’s microphone by Nour Ouayda (5’, 2020, Lebanon)
· Deja morts by Ghada Sayegh (7’30”, 2024, Lebanon)
· Aïnata by Alaa Mansour (60’, 2018, Lebanon)
. Home Movies Gaza by Basma Alsharif (2013, 24min, Palestine)
. Our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed (2021, 22min, Palestine)
. Under the Skin of the City by Rakhshan Banietemad (2001, Iran)
. A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia (2021, India)
. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones by Arundhati Roy and Pradip Krishen (1989, India)