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SUMMARY:How Can We Creatively Document Life in a Time of Genocide - Saeed 
 Taji Farouky (Filmmaker)
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DESCRIPTION:Culture has always been targeted in the genocide of the Palest
 inian people. This talk approaches filmmaking as life-writing in condition
 s of genocide\, where family photographs\, film archives\, and cultural in
 stitutions become sites of struggle over memory\, survival\, and the right
  to narrative. Drawing on histories of cultural loss and erasure in Palest
 ine—from the theft of family photo archives in 1948\, to the looting of 
 the Palestinian film archive in 1982\, to the targeting of cultural centre
 s in 2024\, such as Rashad Shawa in Gaza and the Jenin Freedom Theatre—f
 ilmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky asks:\n\n*What does it mean to make creative w
 ork when the very materials of cultural memory are under threat?*\n\n*Key 
 questions addressed in this lecture include:*\n\n* How can life-writing pr
 actices—including filmmaking—contribute to the resistance against occu
 pation and to Palestinian liberation?\n* How should we understand the valu
 e\, limits\, and responsibilities of such work in a state of emergency\, s
 uch as the one currently ongoing in Gaza? \n* How can we navigate the UK c
 ultural landscape in which solidarity with Palestinians is suppressed or c
 riminalised?\n\nTouching on life-writing\, filmmaking\, and cultural memor
 y\, this talk will be of interest to readers\, writers\, filmmakers\, stud
 ents\, and scholars working across literature\, film and media\, visual cu
 lture\, politics\, and human rights. It will also appeal to those interest
 ed in archives and testimony\, as well as the ethics of making and sharing
  creative work in times of genocide\, occupation\, and state violence. No 
 prior specialist knowledge or preparation is required.\n\n*Saeed Taji Faro
 uky* is a Palestinian/Egyptian filmmaker who has been making films around 
 themes of conflict\, human rights\, and colonialism since 2005. His latest
  feature documentary\, _A Thousand Fires_\, premiered as the opening film 
 in Directors’ Fortnight at the Locarno Film Festival 2021\, where it won
  the Marco Zucchi Award for most innovative documentary. His previous docu
 mentary\, _Tell Spring Not to Come This Year_\, premiered at the Berlinale
  2015\, where it won the Audience Choice Panorama Award and the Amnesty Hu
 man Rights Award\, and was sold to Netflix. Farouky is also a radical film
  educator\, regularly teaching\, leading workshops\, and lecturing about a
 lternative forms of cinematic storytelling. He is the designer and lead tu
 tor of the Radical Film School\, a free film course based in London dedica
 ted to political filmmakers from marginalised backgrounds.\nSpeakers:\nSae
 ed Taji Farouky (Filmmaker)
LOCATION:Wolfson College (The Buttery\, and online via Zoom)\, Linton Road
  OX2 6UD
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5d1b095e-2264-4205-a350-8ee50f981bdd/
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