Open AccessUnresolved Subjects in the Cinema of Statelessness
Author(s) -
Noah Viernes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
review of human rights
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2520-7032
pISSN - 2520-7024
DOI - 10.35994/rhr.v5i1.90
Subject(s) - statelessness , refugee , movie theater , politics , ethnography , media studies , sociology , history , gender studies , art , political science , literature , law , anthropology , citizenship
Cinematic projections of refugees, exiles, and forced migration depart from the conventions of documentary fact to expand the experience of statelessness. For instance, Pierre-Yeves Vandeweerd’s post-ethnographic work configures voices and bodies onscreen to communicate political subjectivities lost to names, dates, and macropolitical events. These films thereby return existing questions about the unresolved sovereignties of states.