The practices and affects of decolonial filmmaking

Since their inception as an artform, films have been structured by a colonial way of seeing. Specific arrangements and depictions of bodies reproduce colonial fantasies of the other of Europe. Recently, more and more visual artists explore alternative aesthetics that resist the colonial gaze. Today, we talk with filmmaker Arjunraj about the practices and affects of decolonial filmmaking.

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Colonialism is not only a thing of the past. It affects people all over the world, in the north and the south of our globe, every day. Colonialism can be many things: a structure of power, inequality, violence - but also a structure of feeling. In exciting conversations with academics, artists, journalists, and activists, we shed a critical light on colonialism's affective lives and afterlives. Together with them, we discuss the urgent struggles of our time and the different visions of how to decolonize our present. Find out more on our website: https://affect-and-colonialism.net