Collaborative Processes and Questions of Care
This series of conversations looks to long-term filmmaking teams to reflect on questions of care over time. It is often said that collaboration is at the heart of creative practice, but how is a sustainable safe space practically built and maintained? How do we protect ourselves and each other in making work that is probing, vulnerable, honest, particularly in times of austerity, of political discord and against the underlying backdrop of engrained systemic injustice? In order to enable work that is sometimes urgent, political, personal? How do we hold each other to account whilst enabling ourselves and one another? How do we work to our own terms and not those imposed by the market pressure, by ambiguous institutional criteria or external readings of our work and worth?
Radical film practice is a form of care. Longitudinal filmic relationships behind the camera matter as much as those in front of the camera – one has a significant impact on the other. These sessions, developed and hosted by Elhum Shakerifar, look to imagine, inspire and provoke. They are envisaged as a series of candid, deep-dive conversations to reflect on these questions; and as an invitation to learn together and to build stronger frameworks for sustainable and meaningful filmic practices.
Tickets for each session can be booked separately from the links below:
Friday 8 September, 11:00 with Director Eloise King & Academic/Executive Producer Patricia Kingori
Saturday 9 September, 11:00 with Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah (Other Cinemas)