ARCHIVES OF ABSENCE: Documentary Film and Archival Politics (28.-29. Juni 2012)

How do documentary filmmakers negotiate reality to tell personal and political stories when there is an erasure of history and the absence of an archive?

How do documentary filmmakers grapple with a readily available but “tainted” archive imprinted with the voice and vision of those in power?

Commencing with a film session the workshop will bring together documentary filmmakers, activists and academics to debate methods, motivations, and dilemmas of archival research, and to share their own experiences of the “politics of the archive.”

The workshop was initiated by Lali Vachani (Fellow 2011/12).