participating: Mel Kalfanti (Positively Different Short Film Festival, Athens), Marta Baradić (kino Katarina, Pula), Bilge E. (On Strike: Screenings & Talks Striking Berlinale, Berlin), Danilo Mladenović & Nikola Uzelac (Blokadni FEST, Belgrade)
moderated by: Karla Crnčević (UNSEEN, Zagreb)
In this panel, we will question the possibilities of engaged film production, curatorial and representational policies that oppose the appropriation of combat images, and the normalization of our governments’ participation in genocidal policies, which are manifested through support and various forms of cooperation with Israel. With guests who are engaged in various ways in reorganizing cinema events in their communities in response to the repression and silencing that we have witnessed since the moment of the escalation of terror against the Palestinian people, we will touch on the issue of sustainability, the importance of (re)organization and the strike and boycott of film workers in these moments, as well as the possibility of creating real places of resistance and freedom that reach for material and concrete tools of solidarity, and not only symbolic gestures. In addition to our own organizational experiences, we will also share what serves as our inspiration and pool of knowledge, and what we rely on in theory and practice when we think of a different circulation of the film image that sidesteps highly competitive programs that mostly appropriate ground combat and turn it into a commodity for the festival audience.
