Settler Frames, Part 1 Launched

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After a 2018 Curator-In-Residency sting at Concordia Unviversity’s fabulous VCR – Visual Collections Repository, where I was tasked with animating the film archives, I was inspired to keep going with the work. That initial time spent pouring over hundreds of films from various “settler cinemas” (USA, Canada, UK, Australia) was enlightening and invigorating. I ended up staging a small curated installation of some films that highlighted my developing theory of the “Five Settler Archetypes.” Afterward, and clearly because I was avoiding my larger book project about film festivals and neoliberalism…read more