Parapoetics Film Screening

Katarina Zdjelar presents a programme of artists’ films in which language and the voice is applied to consider political, cultural and social issues. This screening programme investigates the political in language, and the ways in which language shapes individual and collective experience. The selected works touch on the impact of assimilative language policies – where an official language is imposed to foster ’national unity’. But they also show instances where adopting or rejecting a language or a mode of speaking form strategies of self-empowerment or resistance. Language here appears as a weapon and as a shield, with the ability to protect or liberate and to wound.