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Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025
3:10 PM (79 mins)
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Media and Migration
In Conversation
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Allyson Unzicker is a curator from Los Angeles and doctoral candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on decolonial aesthetics and the affective structures of fatigue and political depression in film and multimedia installations.
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Crystal Z Campbell, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descent whose works center the under-loved. Working through archives and omissions, Campbell finds complexity in public secrets known by many yet often unspoken.
Curated in tandem with the Media and Migration in a Digital Age symposium, this program focuses on moving images that explore the conflicts of war, climate change, and the colonial legacies that continue to force migration. The films focus on details of the lived experience of migration by following an informal logic that embraces affect and experimentation. As such, these narratives act as affective gestures to reflect on the environments that borders produce through physical and psychic manifestations. Displacement is traced through movement, or lack thereof, across various landscapes. Altogether, these images traverse cinematic time as a decolonial vision of repair and resistance to challenge media as a form of knowledge production.
— Allyson Unzicker
Films in this Screening
4 Waters—Deep Implicancy
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Arjuna Neuman, United States, United Kingdom, 2018
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- Color
- Digital
- 31 mins
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- Denise Ferreira da Silva
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- Arjuna Neuman
Merging, Dissecting, Collecting
Joyce Joumaa, Lebanon, Turkey, 2021
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Color
- Digital
- 7 mins
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- Joyce Joumaa
Penelope
Noor Abed, Palestine, 2014
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- Color
- Digital
- Silent
- 6 mins
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- Noor Abed
Dahiet Al Bareed, District of the Post Office
Rosalind Nashashibi, United Kingdom, 2002
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- Color
- Digital
- 7 mins
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- LUX Distribution
A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off
Shireen Seno, Philippines, 2020
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- English
- Tagalog
- with English subtitles
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- Color
- Digital
- 18 mins
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- Shireen Seno
Makahiya
Crystal Z Campbell, Philippines, 2024
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- English
- Tagalog
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- Color
- Digital
- 10 mins
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- Crystal Z Campbell
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