Thinking in Film. Research Practices Beyond Representation
What if film does not merely represent the world, but becomes a way of thinking through it? Bringing scholars and filmmakers into conversation, this workshop explores how filming, framing, montage, and sound can generate new forms of inquiry and knowledge.
Event details of
Thinking in Film. Research Practices Beyond Representation
- Start date
- 1 October 2026
- End date
- 2 October 2026
- Location
- Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis
- Room
- Kartini Room
Programme
1 October (15.00-18.30)
Three film screenings will start the discussion:
- A Letter to Chinatown (Elena Barabantseva, Alexandra D’Onofrio, Kieran Hanson, Dan He, 2025, 47 min)
- Maka (Elia Mouatamid, Simone Brioni, 2023, 52 min)
- Still Here (Suranga Katugampala, 2024, 90 min)
2 October (12.00-18.00)
12-12.15 Introduction
12.15-13.05 Keynote by Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University): (Un)framing the Other, Reframing the Self: Migration, Documentary Film, and Politics of Looking
13.05-14.00 Lunch break outside Kartini room
14.00-15.30 Panel 1
- Isabelle Cockel: To see is to act: the screening of Miles to Go before I Sleep and interactive knowledge co-production
- Guido Gargiulo: Filming the Unspeakable: Taiwanese Documentary as Geopolitical Epistemology
- Suranga Katugampala: After the Cut: From Filmmaking to Place-Making
15.30-15.50 Break
15.50-17.15 Panel 2
- Elena Barabantseva: Reflections on A Letter to Chinatown
- Iris Yu Yang: Absent but Situated: Filmmaker Positionality and the Affective Archive of The Returning Tide
- Linde Luijnenburg: Thinking in Film? Italianità as an Example of Moving Images
17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-18.00 Conclusions
