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.

该项目的重点是妇女在Ceddo电影和视频工作室、Sankofa电影和视频集体以及黑人音频电影集体中的代表和定位。布莱克工作室出现在20世纪80年代，试图通过一种实验性的电影制作实践来对抗传统的对《黑人》的描绘，这种做法也挑战了英国电影和电视的规范。尽管布莱克工作室具有当代意义，但在英国电影和先锋派的研究中，它们被相对忽视了，而电影本身仍然很难获得。此外，讲习班的重要性现在主要与男性人物有关，特别是艾萨克·朱利安和约翰·阿科姆夫拉的工作，其结果是，妇女成员在形成讲习班的正式方法和专题方面所发挥的作用在很大程度上被忽视了。通过结合档案研究、访谈、文本分析和公众参与，我的研究试图通过突出黑人工作坊中妇女关注的问题和战略的重要性，并确定她们所面临的多种问题(从种族和性暴力到侨民经历的复杂性)来纠正这种妇女角色的边缘化。通过这样做，这项研究将在先锋电影制作史和英国电影史上重新定位黑人工作室，以突出它们如何构成一种另类的女权主义英国电影制作实践，将黑人女性的经历、身份和代表性置于其核心。在黑人生活运动呼吁扩大黑人的声音并加强对过去经历和不公正的历史了解的时候，该项目不仅将在目前被省略的史学中恢复黑人讲习班，而且还将通过展览和相关的面向公众的活动鼓励公众和批判性地参与其工作。