New paper in @ijcs-journal.bsky.social: I discuss film culture in #Rojava (NE Syria) to critically reflect on the relations between autonomy, film, and revolution. Access here doi.org/10.1177/1367... (or contact me if you don't have access). @erc.europa.eu

The new book is out! "Kinotopias" was written together with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & @silviamaresia.bsky.social as part of the @erc.europa.eu project "Reel Borders". Get your copy here (hardcover + open access e-book): edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop...

Our forthcoming book 'Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World' now has a cover ⤵️. Coming out later this year: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop.... Great collaboration with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social.

⚡ New OA paper in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography with @silviamaresia.bsky.social, from our @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TJBKZ.... We develop the cineforum methodology as an approach for sensitive knowledge in ethnography.

From earlier this week: Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & I presenting a screening and talk about @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders, one of the final presentations of the project. Thank you NYU Steinhardt for hosting this session, which was introduced by Radha S. Hegde.

⚡ New paper in Third Text with Giacomo Toffano. In "Hybrid Aesthetics of Standby" we discuss 3 films (Flotel Europa/Havarie/Purple Sea) and how they disrupt the border spectacle through formal hybrid experimentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...

New papers from the @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: on "Borderwork as artistic practice" in Geopolitics + on participatory filmmaking in Sensate. ▶️ doi.org/10.1080/1465... ▶️ sensatejournal.com/rethinking-a... By stellar team Lennart Soberon @silviamaresia.bsky.social & Irene Gutiérrez-Torres

Sending this manuscript off to @edinburghup.bsky.social today! In a few months we'll hopefully be able to share the whole thing. Great team work with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez-Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social #ReelBorders #kinotopias @erc.europa.eu

More than 10 years after my first @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, I'm so glad to be going to the next conference in Chicago. Looking forward to presenting Reel Borders research & reconnecting with the SCMS community 🎬

Studying migration? This new Handbook of Research Methods in Migration offers a range of hands-on approaches for the field. I contributed a chapter on visual methods. Find out more here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... (the chapter is #openaccess).

Together with Lennart Soberon, I published a new paper on border films. We analyse 43 films connected to the Irish border and develop a typology of different border mobilities. Read the full paper, open access, in the Irish Studies Review, here: doi.org/10.1080/0967....

Today I had the pleasure to present for the first time at the conference of the Radical Film Network. I presented work with Irene Gutiérrez on the use of archives in participatory filmmaking. Read more about the network here (radicalfilmnetwork.com). More info: reelborders.eu/RFN-2024-Con....

The end of another semester of teaching #filmhistory. Thank you to Cinematek for hosting our classes & to a great, critical group of students. Main lesson learned this year = bringing world politics into class is appreciated by students. See you next year for more film history! 🎬

A highlight of my film history course: visiting the Royal Film Archive of Belgium and its restoration lab with the students. Beautiful moment face to face with the original Chantal Akerman #JeanneDielman negatives #filmhistory

ABCeuta is online! This "alphabet of the border" of 26 short videos was made with 13 domestic workers who share their stories about lives affected by the border. On #WomensDay we share their stories & launch a petition. Find out more: abceuta.film. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/por-favor-...

New publication in Emotion, Space & Society. With Silvia Almenara-Niebla, we report on ethnographic fieldwork conducted on the Irish border, and develop the cineforum method, a participatory visual elicitation method using film. Summary and link: reelborders.eu/EmotionSpace...

If you are in Brussels, you can explore the unexpected and rich histories of Belgian cinema, through 11 lectures and screenings. From February to May at Cinema RITCS. All information www.cinemaritcs.be/the-power-of.... I'll present animation film + "Taxandria" by Raoul Servais 🎦

Refugee Hybrid Fiction. New #OpenAccess paper published with Giacomo Toffano in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture. Based a mapping of 98 cases, we argue for a politics of hybridity in media and migration that challenges conventional regimes of representation. Access: doi.org/10.1386/cjmc...

How do films reflect physical and symbolic borders between communities? We explore this with students in Adana in our participatory filmmaking workshop on the Turkish-Syrian border. So exciting to see them in action and see stories emerge. More information on www.reelborders.eu

As part of Reel Borders, we organise #cineforums to discuss border stories and memories. Here are some impressions of yesterday in Samandağ (Hatay), with the solidarity initiative started after the earthquake. Film, talking and LOTS of çay. More info on www.reelborders.eu