2020 Residency theme: Feminist Ethnographic filmmaking
The residency is a collaboration between VCAM and Ethnocine Collective. The residency aims to strengthen the burgeoning field of feminist ethnographic filmmaking by supporting two underrepresented artists to claim the time, space, and a critically engaged community to move the needle forward on works-in-progress.
How I Like It is a rare insight into a group of women who talk about their intimate sexual experiences and how they manage to achieve them in a patriarchal Muslim society of Pakistan.
2020 Artists in Residence
Seemab Gul is an artist and filmmaker based between London and Karachi. Her films interweave documentary, fictional, and performative elements to explore social-political stories. She is also an educator and a visiting tutor at the London Film Academy and National College of Arts.
Nida Mehboob is a photographer & filmmaker based in Lahore, Pakistan. Her topics of interest include themes of social injustice varying from religious persecution and gender discrimination in Pakistan.
How I Like It is a rare insight into a group of women who talk about their intimate sexual experiences and how they manage to achieve them in a patriarchal Muslim society of Pakistan.
Weaponizing Resistance: Feminist Filmmaking and the Representation of Muslim Women
Masterclass with Artists-in-Residence Seemab Gul and Nida Mehboob
Saturday, October 17, 2020
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EST
In this virtual masterclass, Ethnocine-Haverford Artists-in-Residence Seemab Gul and Nida Mehboob will explore the important role of feminism in Muslim countries, the often exploitative representation of South Asian/Afghan women in western media, and the ethics of collaboration and participation for documentary filmmakers, photographers and visual anthropologists.
Organized by Ethnocine Collective & Haverford's VCAM, Co-sponsored by the Center for Experimental Ethnography @UPENN and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
Bad Feminists making films
On Intimacy and Filmmaking
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Noon, EST
Bad Feminists Making Films will feature screenings of works-in-progress from women filmmakers who will be discussing the importance of intimacy in feminist ethnographic filmmaking practice. Each of the films explores personal relationships and bonds with family, found family, and friends showing how love informs their practices, collaborations, and aesthetics in filmmaking. Featuring the work of Ethnocine Collective members Emily Hong, Miasarah Lai, and Mariangela Mihai, and moderated by Elena Guzman.
Featuring the work of Ethnocine Collective members Emily Hong, Miasarah Lai, and Mariangela Mihai, and moderated by Elena Guzman.
Created by two women-led collectives, Ethnocine and Rhiza, Bad Feminists Making Films is a podcast and screening series where we talk to bad feminist filmmakers who are confronting and changing the film industry through intersectional and decolonial practice. Learn more about Bad Feminists Making Films.
Sponsored by Ethnocine, Rhiza, the VCAM Media and Makers Initiative, the Department of Anthropology, and the Visual Studies Program