The Labor of Visualizing Violence: Imagining Otherwise Through Film
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Feb 24, 2022 2 - 3:15 p.m.
Location
The University of Akron
302 Buchtel Ave
Details
This event will be held in Leigh Hall.
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.
The Event will be available to watch live via MS TEAMS and will be recorded.
This event is sponsored by The Center for Conflict Management
