Language, Film and the Visual Politics of Inclusion

05 Nov 2019

2pm, Saturday 9 November 2019 at the former Cornerhouse

This mini-festival will showcase 4 innovative short films around the themes of language, community and the visual politics of inclusion

About this Event

Join us to explore how language’s community-building capacity can contribute to a politics of inclusiveness, and what happens when it encounters the politics of exclusion. Building on the ‘Language and Identity’ mini-film festival held at the former Cornerhouse in 2018, this event will showcase 4 highly innovative short films made by former Visual Anthropology MA students. They address themes from the Manchester-led, Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ research project which funded the films.

The films are aimed at a wide audience and will tap into and enhance the considerable public interest in linguistic and cultural diversity. Part of the programme addresses the importance of sign language to deaf communities, and the highly innovative approaches taken to the politics of inclusion in the deaf schools that provide the settings for these films, will be of great value to relevant educators and students.

The event will take the form of film showings with after-film short talks from film-makers and academics, discussion and questions from the audience. 

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