Black, British and Feminist: The History and Legacy of Ceddo, Sankofa and the Black Audio Film Collective

黑人、英国人和女权主义者：塞多、桑科法和黑人音频电影集体的历史和遗产

• 批准号: 2613166
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2613166
• 关键词: Black; British; Feminist; History; Legacy

This project focuses on the representation and positioning of women in Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, Sankofa Film and Video Collective and the Black Audio Film Collective. Emerging during the 1980s, the Black Workshops sought to counter conventional depictions of 'Blackness' through an experimental filmmaking practice that also challenged the norms of British film and television. Despite their contemporary relevance, the Black Workshops have been relatively neglected in studies of both British cinema and the avant-garde while the films themselves remain difficult to access. The significance of the Workshops, moreover, is now primarily linked to male figures, particularly the work of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah, with the result that the role played by women members in shaping the Workshops' formal approaches and thematic concerns has been largely neglected. Through a combination of archival research, interviews, textual analysis and public engagement, my research seeks to redress this marginalisation of women's role by foregrounding the significance of women's concerns and strategies in the Black Workshops and identifying the plurality of issues they navigated (ranging from racial and sexual violence to the complexities of diasporic experience). In doing so, the research will relocate the Black Workshops within the histories of avant-garde filmmaking and British cinema in order to highlight the ways in which they constituted an alternative feminist British filmmaking practice that placed Black female experience, identity and representation at its core. At a time when the Black Lives Movement has called for an amplification of Black voices and an enhanced historical understanding of past experiences and injustices, the project will not only reinstate the Black Workshops within the historiographies from which they are presently omitted, but also encourage public and critical engagement with their work through an exhibition and related public-facing activities.

该项目着重于在Ceddo电影和视频研讨会，Sankofa Film和Video Collective以及Black Audio Film Collective中女性的代表和定位。在1980年代，黑人研讨会（Black Workshops）试图通过实验性电影制作练习来应对“黑人”的传统描述，这也挑战了英国电影和电视的规范。尽管它们具有当代意义，但黑色研讨会在对英国电影和前卫的研究中相对忽略了，而电影本身仍然很难获得。此外，研讨会的重要性现在主要与男性人物有关，尤其是艾萨克·朱利安（Isaac Julien）和约翰·阿科姆·弗拉（John Akomfrah）的工作，结果是，女性成员在塑造研讨会的正式方法和主题关注方面所扮演的角色在很大程度上被忽略了。通过档案研究，访谈，文本分析和公众参与的结合，我的研究试图通过提出妇女在黑人研讨会中的关注和策略的重要性来纠正妇女角色的边缘化，并确定他们导航的多个问题（从种族和性暴力到透水经验的复杂性）。这样一来，这项研究将在前卫电影制作和英国电影院的历史中重新安置黑色研讨会，以强调他们构成另一种女性主义的英国电影制作实践的方式，该习惯将黑人女性的体验，身份和代表性置于其核心。在黑人生活运动要求扩大黑色声音并对过去的经历和不公正现象的历史理解增强的时候，该项目不仅会恢复他们目前被省略的史学的黑人讲习班，而且还可以通过展览和相关的公开活动来鼓励公众与他们的工作进行批判性参与。