Event overview
Film screening of Engagement Party in Harare, part of the Films from the Underside Festival of Political Documentary. This film is directed by the festival's guest director Agnieszka Piotrowska.
Engagement Party in Harare:
This film looks at post-colonial identities and racial relationships in Zimbabwe through the lens of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, an annual event in Zimbabwe which is considered the most important Arts Festival in sub Saharan Africa.
Agnieszka Piotrowska:
Agnieszka Piotrowska is an acclaimed filmmaker and a Reader in Film Practice and Theory at the University of Bedfordshire. Her work lies at the intersection of critical theory, postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis. As a filmmaker she is best known for her controversial and award winning documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008) which has been screened in 50 countries. She has been nominated for 3 EMMY’s and was awarded the Best Film at the Fred Wiseman’s Master Class at the Dublin Film Festival for her film The Bigamists (2005). Her previous film on Zimbabwe was nominated for the Best documentary at the International Images Film Festival in 2013 (as the only non-African film). She is also a theatre practitioner and a writer.
Dates & times
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30 Nov 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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