Date: May 23, 2011
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: Communications 150 (Studio C)
The Film & Digital Media Department and the Deans of Arts Division presents
the Inagural Arts Division Research Award Lecture:
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor
From Tūrangi to Tangier: Creativity, Collaboration, and Critique in Postcolonial Cinemas
"My recent book, Making Settler Cinemas, examined how colonialism shaped the development of cinema across three "settler" societies - the US, Austrailia, and New Zealand. In tracing the materiality of settler colonial relations as they structured cinema production, distribution, reception, and form, I also considered historical and recent challenges to the dominance of colonial projects. My talk will reflect on how that research informs a new project on Moroccan director Moumen Smihi who, for forty years, has made independent and radical films from a production base in Tangiers. I will ask how creativity and collaboration within the terrain of film culture might produce forms of political critique and, relatedly, how the knowledge made through such exchanges may reinvigorate our understanding of colonial pasts and help orient us towards different postcolonial presents or futures."
Peter Limbrick is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Making Settler Cinemas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and of articles in Screening the Past, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, and Journal of Visual Culture. Most of his current research, teaching, and curation activities are focused on Arab film and video.