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ORGANISING:

Refugees and Participatory Approaches: Bridging Narratives Through Research and Art

I’m co-organizing a symposium Refugees and Participatory Approaches: Bridging Narratives Through Research and Art. The event will take place on April 8–9, 2024, at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Bringing together scholars, filmmakers, and artists, the symposium explores participatory methods in research and art related to migration.

The symposium is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and supported by The United Nations Information Centre Prague (UNIC), and UNHCR Czech Republic.

More details and the full program will be available soon on our website.

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JUST FINISHED:

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM ANOTHER SUMMER 

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​​How do you make a home when yours has been lost? What future is there when your past has been destroyed? Our answers come from unique footage filmed by refugees across Europe with Afghans and Ukrainians who have fled their countries in the face of violence and oppression.

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Another Summer is a feature documentary film that I co-directed and co-edited with David Edwards.

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More details can be found here or on our website.

WORKING ON: 

A DYING FOX TURNS ITS HEAD TO HOME

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Since 2019, I have been working on my PhD research project focused on the meaning of home in London.

It's an in-depth exploration of the topic with two outcomes – a feature documentary film and a thesis.

Documentary

film

Anthropology

The film explores and tells the story of five Londoners and gradually uncovers in depth what home means to them not only today but throughout their lives. Together with them, I, the director of the film, continuously explore my home as well as throughout the filmmaking process, I question what it means to live in London. The entire film is thus a visit to several homes – theirs and mine, abstract and concrete, temporary and permanent, real and dreamed, private and public. Each character is in a different situation, yet they are all at home in London. Jamaican Andre, British Caroline, Russian Zinovy, French Emilie, Irish-Ukrainian Maria. The film accompanies us through the process of getting to know their home and changes its form and narrative style along with how we get closer to them – emotionally and physically. The film and its chosen form reflect not only the pandemic situation, in which the importance of the home has been significantly accentuated, but also views the home as a universal, omnipresent, very personal, and individual theme. It passes from virtual space to reality, from public to inner, and from observational documentary to autoethnography. How can one have a home in London?

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DOP: Fraser Stephen

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STAGE: Postproduction

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The (unfinished) project was presented at:

  • Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences meeting in London (February 2024)

  • RAI (Royal Anthropology Institute) Film Festival Work In Progress session (March 2023)

  • Anthropology of Home course by UCL & Open City Documentary Festival (Autumn 2022, Spring 2023 & Spring 2025), led by Dr Barbara Knorpp

  • Good City Conference on Urbanism at the Kent School of Architecture (October 2022)

  • Connections PGR SOA Conference at the University of Kent (June 2022)

  • NonConference – PGR SOA event at the University of Kent (June 2021)

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The creation of the project was supported by:

  • Vice Chancellor Scholarship at the University of Kent

  • Migration and Movement Fund

  • Arts & Humanities PG Research Fund

  • Research Training Support Grant (through UKRI – UK Research and Innovation)

  • GRC PhD Top-Up Fund

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