ILAS-funded event on Latin American Cinema and Otherness called: Me, Myself, and Others: A Cinematic Approach to Latin American Encounters
University of Leicester (UK) – 11th October, 2014, 9am-6pm + viewing at local cinema
Filmmakers:
Professor Michael Chanan (University of Roehampton)
Presentation of his latest documentary, Interrupted Memory, with Questions & Answers – http://www.mchanan.com/video/interrupted-memory/
Adam Finch (Award-winning Film Editor and Video Artist– Dreaming Cities)
Dreaming Cities is a long-term artistic collaboration that explores themes of urban encounters and migration using documentary style interviews within a cinematic and musical experience.
Alejo Moguillansky (Argentine Film Director – Film viewing with director at The Phoenix)
Presentation of his film El loro y el cisne (2013) with a Questions-and-Answers session after the screening
Performance: Shaped by Urban Encounters (part of Dreaming Cities)
Sola Akingbola, head percussionist to British jazz funk band Jamiroquai and also founder and lead vocalist to African funky roots band Critical Mass.
He will be playing possible encounters: A journey from the Yoruba diaspora to the rhythm of Latin American cities and the making of a new common space.
Registration deadline: 19th September
All are welcome
Clara Garavelli (University of Leicester) and Sarah Barrow (University of Lincoln)