Event overview
Goldsmiths Anthropology Seminar Series
What are the losses when cultural producers solicit empathy from viewers? If we are to avoid a cinema or art practice of liberalism, what form, tone, timbre should our input as cultural producers take? Filmmaker, film programmer and writer Minou Norouzi reflects on the creative-theoretical process of developing her essay film On the Tenderness of Men and contextualizes this work-in-progress in relation to her research on the role of empathy in representing migrant and intercommunal ‘Others’. She borrows the ethical framework defined in documentary scholarship as reflexive filmmaking to instigate a shift towards reflexive film viewing. Unsettling well-trodden discourses on the ethics of representation her work puts at the centre the ethical obligation of viewers. Its core proposition is the development of viewing cultures that recognize the pitfalls of empathic engagement and the means to navigate out of this by engaging viewers through refracted, multivocal communication and visuality.
Minou Norouzi’s research considers cinematic language that communicates the ineffable and challenges totalising accounts of history and knowledge production. She writes, makes films, curates film programmes, is a member of the Journal of Visual Culture editorial collective and an artist-researcher at the University of Helsinki (Kone Foundation 2021 – 2024). Her works screened internationally in interdisciplinary contexts since 2006. Curatorial projects include “Object! On the Documentary as Art” at the Whitechapel Gallery supported by the Arts Council England (2017). She competed her PhD at Goldsmiths supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2018) and was responsible for the artists’ moving image festival Sheffield Fringe (2011 – 2019). http://minounorouzi.com/
This seminar is part of the Goldsmiths Anthropology Seminar Series. Seminars are free and open to all, no booking required.
This seminar is in person only.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 Nov 2022 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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