{"id":3046,"date":"2017-09-27T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2017-10-17T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:29:43","slug":"anandi-ramamurthy-blog-palestine-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/anandi-ramamurthy-blog-palestine-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Blog by Dr Anandi Ramamurthy on Cinematic Interruptions – The Experience of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About the author<\/h4>\n
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Anandi Ramamurthy<\/a> is Reader in Post-Colonial Cultures in the\u00a0Computing and Communication Research Centre (CCRC) within C3RI. Anandi’s research focuses on critically analysing \u2018race\u2019 and postcoloniality in media and culture to challenge hegemonies and aims to give voice to the voiceless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In this post Anandi discusses her work on\u00a0Creative Interruptions<\/a>, an AHRC funded project that explores the role of creativity in challenging and resisting colonialism and racism.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Creative Interruptions<\/a> is a major research project funded by the AHRC. It is headed by Brunel University with academic partners at Queens University Belfast, University of Sussex, University of Strathclyde Glasgow and Sheffield Hallam University. The creative interruptions research as a whole aims to look at the way in which disenfranchised groups in both the UK and internationally have used the arts to challenged hegemonies and interrupt the status quo.<\/p>\n

At Sheffield Hallam we are leading on a strand that explores Palestinian cinema, with both local and international partners: FilmLab Palestine<\/a> and Sheffield Palestine Cultural Exchange. Within this strand we aim to investigate the way cinema has been used by Palestinians to articulate the dreams, histories, memories, and struggles of the Palestinian people and with what effect.<\/p>\n

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The struggle to maintain and develop cultural expression in and for Palestine has been an inherent part of the struggle for Palestinian national liberation. \u2018If imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression,\u2019 as Amilcar Cabral has highlighted, \u2018national liberation is necessarily an act of culture\u2019 (1970). In this strand we are focussing on cinema as a form of cultural expression. We are considering the context of both production and exhibition to consider its power and impact.<\/p>\n

We do not aim to produce a history of Palestinian cinema but will investigate how filmmakers have struggled to use cinema to speak of Palestinian experience and how the barriers to creating such a cinema have been creatively overcome. We will consider how creative practitioners have sought support for cinematic projects and how they have negotiated institutional and financial policies and frameworks in order to speak in both Palestine and abroad.<\/p>\n

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The research aims to explore how, as \u2018a stateless cinema\u2019 (Dabashi 2003), Palestinian cinema has not just played a role in creating cultural tradition and history, but has also been forced to be outward facing \u2013 a cinematic culture that has needed to speak to and engage the international community as much as Palestinians. In Sheffield and the North of England, we are exploring the audiences and reception for Palestinian cinema. In conducting this research, we have taken a participatory approach, involving Sheffield Palestine Cultural Exchange and Cinema Palestino Manchester<\/a> in the organisation of screenings and events to share and explore how Palestinian films are watched and received by diverse audiences and will consider the role of Palestine Film Festivals in providing a forum for the critical appreciation and exhibition of these films.<\/p>\n

Watch out on this blog<\/a> for forthcoming events from Creative Interruptions<\/a>\u00a0and get involved in the discussions!<\/p>\n

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Please note: Views expressed are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of SHU, C3RI\u00a0or the C3RI Impact\u00a0Blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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