FIFEQ – Reassemblage + 7 Queens [FREE]

Retrospective | Reflexive Ethnography – Free admission, subject to availability

5:45 pm Audience welcome
6:15 pm Screening begins

*Screening followed by a discussion

Reassemblage

Trinh T. Minh-ha’s first film and a classic of postcolonial cinema, Reassemblage is set in the rural areas of Senegal. It introduces Trinh’s methodology, which she defines as the idea of “speaking nearby,” an approach she will adopt throughout her career. Through this work, Trinh questions the presumption of anthropologist filmmakers and documentarians to speak about or on behalf of their subjects. This critique also extends to the “missionary, the Peace Corps volunteer, the tourist, and finally, but not least, herself as a spectator.”

Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha
1982 | 39 min | English (s.t. French)

Filmmaker’s country: United States / Country of filming: Senegal

7 Queens

Verena Paravel captures images during an aimless walk beneath the elevated tracks of the #7 subway line in New York. 7 Queens ventures into the fragile zone of fleeting relationships and questions the conventions of ethnographic film, or rather, it offers us an (anti)-ethnographic and sensitive film. Through a series of spontaneous interactions, this film experiments with physical limits and thresholds, aiming to capture evanescent forms of intimacy through random, and sometimes unfinished encounters.

Directed by Verena Paravel
2008 | 22 min | English (s.t. English)

Filmmaker’s country: United States, France / Country of filming: United States