Talk
Death is Certain But Not Final: A Performance Lecture on the Role of Absence in Radical Documentary Cinema
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghFilmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky will take participants through a non-academic, irreverent, multi-media exploration of ‘absence’ as an essential creative and political component of radical / experimental documentary filmmaking. Journeying through music, literature, dance, film and architecture, Saeed will examine how certainty and presence – requirements of capitalist, industrial filmmaking – can be challenged and contradicted