Ways of Seeing and Listening: Militant Film Collectivism of the 1970s

PhD defence by Oscar Waage Elbæk Pedersen

Assessment Committee

Associate professor, Film Studies Birger Langkjær, KU, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
PhD, Reader in FIlm and Media Studies Erika Balsom, King's College London
Professor, Film studies Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lunds Universitet

Supervisors

Associate Professor Casper Tybjerg
Professor Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Department

Department of Communication

Place

Building: 9A, Room: 9A.1.01 (Nanna Berg auditoriet), Njalsgade 76, 2300

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Short description of the thesis

How do we learn to see and listen through cinema? In the 1970s, militant film collectives across the world explored this question by making films collectively and experimenting with new relationships between images, sounds, and political action. Ways of Seeing and Listening explores four such collectives from Portugal, Guyana, France, and Thailand. The dissertation proposes "ways of seeing and listening" as a framework for understanding these practices, showing how the collectives used cinema not only to intervene in political movements and struggles but also to reflect on the possibilities of cinema itself.