Center for Conflict Management Spotlight: The Labor of Visualizing Violence: Imagining Otherwise Through Film

Date and Time for this Past Event

Thursday, Feb 24, 2022 2 - 3:15 p.m.

Details

The Event will be available to watch live via MS TEAMS and will be recorded.

Thinking critically about our society’s relationships with violence, crime and punishment requires significant challenges to mainstream narratives, especially with regards to race. Through film and other forms of visual art, djones interrogates both the creative and emotional labor of such confrontations.

As part of the Rethinking Race Series, our guest presenter is “d jones,” a PhD candidate at School of Film, Media & Theatre at Georgia State University. He will present two short films and engage in Q and A: Abstract: Thinking critically about our society’s relationships with violence, crime and punishment requires significant challenges to mainstream narratives, especially with regards to race. Through film and other forms of visual art, djones interrogates both the creative and emotional labor of such confrontations. The Great Incarcerator, part 1: Dark Little Secret (2011) reveals the undeniable historical bonds between race and the criminal justice system in the era of mass incarceration. 631 (2008) and 2020AD (2021) engage the violence of economics and police brutality while employing a practice of care that seeks to find alternative means of visualizing such graphic scenes.

This event is sponsored by The Center for Conflict Management