Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. Issue 18: Refugee Filmmaking
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Item Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media podcast. Episode 03, Issue 18, ‘Refugee filmmaking’(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 43803) Sorbera, Lucia; Holly, Michael; Goldfish, SuThis discussion between Su Goldfish and Doctor Caroline Linette is based on a dossier for Alphaville Issue 18 on the challenges of separation for refugee filmmaking. It is moderated by Doctor Lucia Sorbera. The recording took place at the Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia on 14 October 2019.Item Debordering academia: Centring the displaced and exiled in research. Foreword(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2019) Tofighian, Omid; Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie; Davies Hayon, Kaya; Sorbera, LuciaThis issue of Alphaville centres on the work of displaced and exiled filmmakers and directors committed to challenging border violence. This is achieved in part through the work of the academic contributions in the main section, but perhaps most pertinently through the contributions of filmmakers in the two Dossiers. The editorial team in this issue practiced a form of borderless collegiality by imagining a scholarly publication that fosters empowering dialogues between academics, artists, activists and those with lived experience; debordering here begins with the vision of the editorial team and extends into the selection and configuration of contributions.Item The Last Goldfish(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2019) Goldfish, Su; Newman, Joanna; Ewington, Julie; Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie; Sorbera, LuciaA few years before filmmaker Su Goldfish’s father, Manfred Goldfish, died she interviewed him on camera. He was reluctant to talk about the uncomfortable truths of his past, his previous marriage, his two other children and the persecution and murder of his family in Germany. “You can watch all that in a documentary”, he used to say to her. The Last Goldfish (Su Goldfish, 2017) became that documentary. This article contains three responses to the film. The first section, “Losing Harry”, written by Su Goldfish, focuses on the impact Manfred’s experiences had on his son Harry, connecting that experience to the despair of children currently held in the Australian Regional Processing Centre on Nauru. The second part, “Internment”, is written by historian Dr Joanna Newman whose research on refugees in the British West Indies grounds Manfred’s reluctant memories of rescue and internment in Trinidad in historical fact. The third section of this composite reflection, “Citizen of the World”, is a response from curator and scholar Julie Ewington who reflects on the film’s unravelling of hidden traumas and the unspoken histories in families.Item Film as folklore(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2019) Boochani, Behrouz; Tofighian, OmidCodirector Behrouz Boochani offers a critical reflection on Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time in which he discusses the multilayered meanings of the film. He shares his thoughts about his cinematic vision and how it is connected to the land. In this respect, the film cherishes the sanctity of the island’s ecosystem and knowledge system and also criticises the way the Australia-run detention centre degrades nature and the social fabric of the island. Boochani also elaborates on issues pertaining to reception and the way folklore (both Kurdish and Manusian) frames his resistance and critique.Item Refugee filmmaking: Editorial(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2019) Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie; Davies Hayon, Kaya; Sorbera, Lucia; Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie; Davies Hayon, Kaya; Sorbera, LuciaThe origins of this issue of Alphaville lie in collaborations between the Forced Migration Research Network (UNSW – University of New South Wales) and the Refugee Council of Australia, and in the inspiration afforded us by international colleagues and guests to Sydney (Fadma Aït Mous), Liverpool (Dennis Del Favero) and Lincoln (Hoda Afshar) universities. We have benefited from these academic alliances and invitations, but we also embrace the widest notion of hospitality, whereby the moment of arrival, the request for assistance and shelter, and subsequent decisions over citizenship and long-term residency are located in a moral environment of welcome and mutual learning. We trace and acknowledge our intellectual relationships here in so far as they have allowed us to articulate an emerging and shared recognition that refugee lived experience stands as the barometer for political civility and social health in our time.
