(SARAJEVO, JUNE 17, 2021) As part of its festival outreach activities, Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo presents its 2nd online outreach programme: The Factual, the Fictional, and the Fabulated: Shared Embodiment
“Capitalism communicates and imposes a view of the body like an island. Cut off. It’s a process of really impoverishment, because the body, our body extends and connects and draws its life, its energy from the surrounding atmosphere.” These are the opening words of Silvia Federici in Angela Anderson’s film that opens our 2nd outreach programme. In coupling cinema, cultural research and the ecofeminist, though ‘material-semiotic entanglements’ of the factual, the fictional, and the fabulated, both the filmic and the documentary become correlated to interact with each to enact a realism of the possible. Thus, the ecofeminist in the cinematic opens possibilities for new forms of narrative and imaginative articulation, for partial narratives, counter-narratives and non-narratives, for the clashing, the inharmonious, for the transgressed, for radical connectivism, and surely for “risky reading.”
Our 2nd outreach programme – The Factual, the Fictional, and the Fabulated: Shared Embodiment – embodies and is an embodiment itself of a possible and the imagined world-in-common. A world-in-common that opens the passageways and cross-overs of the intended and unintended fractures that make us shift from scientific research knowledge in the filmic and essayistic to the feminist indigenous knowledges, the splits that makes us take new paths and change the method of tracing. Splits and passageways of shared embodiment, as active interventions on the fabric of society, the social, political, the cultural, and the corporeal.
The way one relates to land, water and “resources” is reflected in the way one produces goods, relations and affinities. Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality – Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die by Angela Anderson juxtaposes the destructive process of fracking with voices from a women’s collective agricultural project in the autonomous region of Rojava, Syria. Following the path of seeds transaction between the Arctic and Lebanon, Jumana Manna’s film Wild Relatives follows the astonishing story of seed preservation in the face of war and climate change through a series of encounters of human and non-human lives between these two distant places of the earth. The film You Think That the Earth Is a Dead Thing by Florence Lazar looks at the global ecological crisis from the viewpoint of the island of Martinique. In reflecting on ecology, the film not only raises issues concerning nature and damaged ecosystems, but also focuses on spaces of resistance to the crisis in which women and men acknowledge and act from the historical perspective of colonialism, where ecological struggle and the colonial past are intrinsically connected.
Connected with the theme of this programme and in partnership with Science for the People the festival will publish a translation in the local language of the three part interview by Katherine Bryant and Erik Wallenberg with Donna Haraway, originally published by Science for the People Magazine.
Beyond Critique: An Interview with Donna Haraway – Part 2: A Biology for the People
The programme is curated by in-house programmers Kumjana Novakova and Diogo Pereira. It starts on June 17, and all films can be seen on the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo website. All screenings are open worldwide. Welcome!