[Ethnomusicology] Screening of Nobel Nok Dah and conversation with Ethnocine

[Liz Przybylski]

The CIS Interdisciplinary Working Group Speaker Series "Art,
Authoritarianism, Activism in Contemporary Southeast Asia" Presents
A VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING & TALK WITH THE FEMINIST FILMMAKER COLLECTIVE
Ethnocine Collective
May 18th 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM PST
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/ethnocineatucr

Join us for a screening of Nobel Nok Dah and conversation with Ethnocine, a
collective of visual anthropologists and filmmakers who push the boundaries
of documentary storytelling through decolonial and intersectional feminist
practice. What are the stakes of feminist documentary storytelling during
times of authoritarian resurgence across Southeast Asia? What are the range
of methods, pedagogies, and teaching that are necessary to sustain
decolonial afterlives?

Nobel Nok Dah offers an intimate view into the lives of three refugee women
from Burma whose migratory paths cross in Thailand and eventually meet when
they resettle to central New York. Drawing upon methods of feminist oral
history and ethno-fiction, the film traces glimmers of subjectivity that
complicate any singular narrative of the refugee experience. As camera
movements follow the textures of everyday life and work, a weave of
sensorial fragments immerses audiences in women's narratives of self,
place, and belonging." -- Ethnocine

Moderated by Dr. Emily Hue, Ethnic Studies and SEATRiP Program

*Emily Hong *is a Korean-American visual anthropologist and filmmaker who
has worked in Thailand and Myanmar for fifteen years. Emily’s non-fiction
film and video work combines feminist, decolonial and ethnographic
approaches with impact-oriented storytelling. Emily’s short films GET BY
(2014), NOBEL NOK DAH (2015), and FOR MY ART (2016), have explored
solidarity and labor, womanhood and identity in the refugee experience, and
the gendered spectatorship of performance art, respectively. Her current
feature-length project ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND features indigenous women
and punk rock pastors leading an environmental movement in Myanmar’s North.
Emily is the co-founder of Ethnocine Film Collective  and Rhiza Collective
and a Leadership Team member of the Asian American Documentary Network
(A-Doc). She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Anthropology
at Haverford College.

*Mariangela Mihai *is Romanian multimodal ethnographer and filmmaker. Her
work builds on decolonial, queer, and feminist sensory ethnography methods
to understand Indigenous resistance, borderland disputes, and refugee
issues on the India-Bangladesh-Myanmar-China borderlands and in "the
Balkans.” Mariangela’s films have screened at international film festivals,
universities, museums, and public and art institutions in Athens, Bangkok,
Chiang Mai, Paris, New York, Yangon, New Orleans, Los Angeles, DC, and San
Jose. Her latest media projects include I Am A Whisper, My Dear, a
collaborative ethnofiction film exploring LGBTQIA+ activism on the
Southeast Asian borderlands; and, Anatomically, the heart is always
incorrect, a multimedia play that uses autoethnography, poetry, animation,
and digital storytelling to explore Eastern-European embodiment, politics,
and heritage. Mariangela is co-founder of Ethnocine Film Collective and a
board member of The Society for Visual Anthropology. Currently, she serves
as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Media and Film, in the Culture and
Politics Program
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