Apurahat ja residenssipaikat Tiede Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives On Doing Politics With Documentary Päähakija Dr Norouzi Minou ja työryhmä (Migrant Screen Cultures) Hankkeen jäsenet Kuukausiapurahan saajat:Norouzi Minou Ryhmän muut jäsenet: Keskinen Suvi, el Baroni Bassam Myöntösumma 159000 € Tukimuoto Yleinen rahoitushaku Alat Esittävien taiteiden tutkimus Myöntövuosi 2020 Jos omistat hankkeen, voit kirjautua sisään ja lisätä hankkeen tietoja. Kirjaudu sisään Jaa: Takaisin apurahalistaukseen Revolutionary Patience examines documentaries and moving image works by women and non-binary filmmakers from the Middle East/Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) who are implicated in contemporary and historical waves of migration. The project significantly expands our understanding of the social relevance, and politics of documentary by locating the critical potential of migrant and diasporic cinema in strategies of objectification. Migrant perspectives on the strategies of objectification are positioned as critical aesthetic methods and forms of activism that prevent empathic identification as a redemptive act for the viewer. This provokes significant new approaches to thinking about the ethics of documentary. Ethical debates normally focus on the responsibility of filmmakers. This project shifts these classic debates calling our attention to the obligation of viewers instead. Revolutionary Patience, thus, critiques empathic engagement and offers strategies of objectification, including silences and narrative opacities, as patiently revolutionary methods of doing politics with documentary cinema. The study is focused on female and non-binary film practitioners with a background in the SWANA regions to redress insufficient film scholarship on the work of this under-represented group. The project therefore presents a corrective that seeks to create a fuller picture. Loppuraportin tiivistelmä “Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives on Doing Politics with the Documentary“ was a multi-year practice-research project supported by the Kone Foundation (2021-2024). The project examined artists’ moving image and documentary practices by filmmakers with personal experiences of displacement. A study of diasporic cinemas, the project put under critical review empathy as a form of political engagement. Aesthetic strategies such as polyvocality, silence, and linguistic and narrative obfuscations were foregrounded as patiently revolutionary methods of doing politics with documentary cinema. These strategies, it was argued, could prevent empathic identification for viewers as the sum total of their political engagement and instead produce empathic resonances as critical aesthetic methods and forms of activism. Empathic resonance differs from empathic identification as a form of engagement. The latter runs the risk of reducing viewing experiences to acts of redemption. In contrast, empathic resonance offers the possibility of expanded viewing practices because the labour of the viewer’s participation is needed to fill the gaps produced by narrative obfuscations making the documentary encounter one of collective meaning-making. The study was focused on female-identifying practitioners from the Southwest Asia & North Africa region (SWANA) to redress insufficient film scholarship on the work of this under-represented group. The project therefore presented a corrective that seeks to create a fuller picture. Takaisin apurahalistaukseen