RAIFF 2021 - P23b - Disappearing world reloaded

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Panel 23b - Disappearing world reloaded: a proposition to collaborate on geopoetic films of the “terrestrial”

Convenors: Blake P Kendall (Freie Universitat Berlin HKMW), Pavel Borecký (University of Bern)

Short abstract: In this panel we explore the promise of geopoetics in the realm of visual anthropology and subsequently aim to instigate the formation of a new collaboration / creative collective. How do we create geopoetic films today?

Episode 2 : ¿Y si los árboles pudieran hablar? (What if trees could talk?)

NB : This session will be bi-lingual, with dialogue facilitated in English and Spanish and beyond.

Papers:

• Challenging Colonial Land-Based Narratives and Embracing Ecosystem Wholeness
  Author: Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed (ALCLA Native Plants)

• The Amazon rainforest and the oak tree at my mother’s garden: an interspecies exploration around narrating interconnectedness
  Authors: Gerrit Stollbrock Trujillo (Universidad Externado and Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia))

• Terrestrial Subjectivity / Equator Line as a Singularity: Ancestrofuturism at the Alcantara Lauch Center
  Author: Fabiane Borges (National Institute for Space Research)

• The Earth Stories Collection, or How to End Modernism Once and for All
  Author: Grian A. Cutanda (The Earth Stories Collection)

Featured special guest: Benedito Cunha Caravalho (Quilombola, Brazil).