Joining attention to aesthetic experimentation with a focus on sociopolitical concerns, this talk discusses the ways recent cinematic and artistic works engage Europe’s increasingly diverse and complex relationship to migration. With a focus on projects that explore the sociopolitical tensions that have surrounded migration in Europe since the 1990s, Bayraktar explores films and cinematic installations that concern migratory networks, infrastructures, and places across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With a specific focus on diverse forms of mobility such as postcolonial migration and undocumented migration this talk provides an account of the new counter-hegemonic imaginations invoked by the work of filmmakers such as Fatih Akin and Tony Gatlif as well as video essays and installations of artists such as Ursula Biemann and Adrian Paci.
Nilgun Bayraktar is an Assistant Professor of Film History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts.
Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
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