Non-fiction cinema in recent years has been marked by trafficking in colonial archives, in the form of film, photographs, folders, documents, often to be interrogated, mined, repurposed. Focusing on moving image archives, this workshop is a practical approach to the ethics, limits and possibilities of editing with and against found footage. No experience required.

Open to all Tufts students, faculty and staff.

This workshop is part of an film screening event titled Archive Fevers: Did the Fire Read the Stories It Burnt? with Chrystel Oloukoï.  While registration is required for the workshop, it is not required for the screening and discussion that follows from 5:30-7pm in room 304, Tisch Library. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, And Diaspora, with support from the Africana Studies Program, Visual and Material Studies at SMFA and the Film, Video and Animation department at SMFA. 

About Chrystel

Chrystel Oloukoï is an artist, film critic and curator, broadly interested in experimental cinema, queer cinema and Black continental and diasporic cinema. They are completing a PhD in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. They have curated programs for Canyon Cinema, 
CalArts/Redcat and Monangambee, worked as a preselector on the Open City Doc festival 
programming team and their writing has appeared in Film Comment, Metrograph, Sight & Sound, World Records and others.

Accessbility information:  The DDS is located on the third floor of Tisch Library which is accessible via stairs and elevator.  There are bathrooms and a water fountain located on the same floor as the event.  For questions, reach out to tischdds@tufts.edu.