Location: South Hall 2635
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Workshop Description:
This workshop encourages scholars to harness their collective and individual political visions in their cultural criticism to imagine better futures and possibilities. It will provide an overview of what resources and publications exist to support aspiring Black and Brown and queer critics. We will review some of the pitching process and etiquette expected by publications, which many of them obscure/gatekeep, and reemphasize the importance of one’s own critical subjectivity—versus imagined and overwrought objectivities—by remembering the lessons of 60s-70s revolutionary “Third cinema in the Third World” and UCLA's L.A. Rebellion. The workshop will also touch on how to read aesthetics in relation to the modes of production that bore them—as those modes undergo frequent, significant, and unpredictable change—and offer insight into the process of interviewing filmmakers and artists. The workshop is geared toward empowering the next generation of film and culture critics to rigorously harness their subjective voice, which AI and western “objective” art criticism can never replace.
Artist Bio:
A. E. Hunt (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker from Illinois; cameraperson in doc/narrative production; film critic in publications like Criterion, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, and Rappler; freelance programmer; theatrical booker for distributors like Kani Releasing and Third World Newsreel; and the Vice President of Dedza Films, a distribution initiative for emerging Black and Brown filmmakers. He recently edited a two-volume memoir about writer/director Mike De Leon’s life during the first and second golden ages of Philippine cinema and is currently guest editing a writing series for Sentient Art Film's release of Lo Que Queda En El Camino in community spaces across the US-Mexico border.
Event Description:
Through this summer residency program, three queer Asian-diasporic artists and cultural critics will produce new work. They will offer accessible screenwriting and cultural criticism workshops, film screenings and musical/poetry performances geared toward students and faculty interested in Asian American Studies, ethnic studies, coalition-building, queer and non-binary experiences, climate justice, film and cultural criticism, poetry and spoken word. Together, these offerings help us remember that cinema and song–and the cultures they ignite, can be some of the most powerful tools we have to critique this world and build a better one.