ARC Works in Progress Talk (Nandini Sikand)

Please join us at 12:15pm on Tuesday, February 7 for the first ARC Works-in-Progress Talk of the Spring semester!  Nandini Sikand will be giving a talk entitled "The Ethics of Representation".  Lunch will be served.

Abstract:  Nandini Sikand will screen her finished short  One if by Land (2015, 14 minutes), an experimental short film that explores the politics of undocumented immigration to the global North via land, sea and air. Inspired by three stories of real voyages made from Mexico, China and Mozambique, this film looks at the impossibility of arrival, a visual commemoration of the unknown immigrant. One, if by Land is not a film that attempts to have answers to the noisy debate around immigration policies, but through grim but evocative imagery of these journeys, it raises questions as to why this impossibility should exist in the first place. Using this film as an example she will talk about the creative process, ethical representations of vulnerable subjects from conception to research with an emphasis on ethical story-telling. Sikand will also screen a 10-minute trailer of a work in progress, Inside Outside, a feature length documentary on women and mass incarceration in the Lehigh Valley.