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Ethnographic Film Night: Horror in the Andes – Between Memories
Fri, 08 Sept
|Q Building, The University of Newcastle
A free film screening followed by a conversation with the filmmaker about the films, positionality and authorship in ethnographic film making.
Time & Location
08 Sept 2023, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Q Building, The University of Newcastle , 16B Honeysuckle Dr, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
About the event
Please register for the event HERE.
This year’s Social Science Week Ethnographic Film night will feature two short movies: Horror in the Andes and Between Memories by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich. These films present parts of Dietrich’s work in Peru, where, for almost a decade, she has explored the questions of how people create worlds for themselves after violent conflicts and how stories are told about violence and trauma.
Horror in the Andes (2020) is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. In this film, Dietrich explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means to revive stories of a pre-colonial past. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community.
Between Memories (2015) is an exploration of the practices of remembering in the shadow of the complex…