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One-Day Workshop

Media and Migration From Africa to Spain:

The Politics of Containment

The African Studies Program, European Studies Program, Labor Studies Program, Center for Civic Engagement

and the

Hofstra Cultural Centerpresent a

Friday, October 10, 2014 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 3-6 p.m.

This daylong event, organized by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Hofstra University, and H. Rosi Song, Bryn Mawr College, features film screenings and two round-table discussions on the intersections of media, migration, Africa, and Spain. Scholars from the tri-state area and Pennsylvania will debate on labor and human rights, borders, the politics of mobility and containment, trans-Saharan routes, Afro-European relations, the Maghreb and West Africa, Spain, Galicia and Catalua.

For more information, please contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.

Sahara ChronicleDirected by Ursula Biemann2007 | Sahara Desert/Switzerland English subtitles | 75 min.Sahara Chronicle encompasses a number of short videos documenting the present

sub-Saharan exodus toward Europe. Taking a close look at the modalities and logistics of the migration system in the Sahara, the project examines the politics of mobility, visibility and containment, which lie at the heart of current global geopolitics. The material is gathered during three field trips to major gates and nodes of the trans-Saharan network in Morocco, Mauritania and Niger where migratory intensity is bundled. No voice-over narrative strings these stories together. Meaning has to be extracted from the interstices between the documents, from the stretch of the journey that is most invisible to the eye.

El espectculo (The Performance)Directed by Erika Snchez y Xavi Esteban2012 | Western Sahara/Spain | Hassaniya and Arabic with English subtitles | 30 min.An experimental audiovisual exercise tracing the

story of children from the Western Sahara refugee camps, spending their summer vacation with host families in Catalua. The film features three protagonists: the group of young children, a Saharawi friend in exile, and a play. Filmed in El Prat (Barcelona).

Tann Sa Yoon (Choose Your Path)Directed by Martn F. Gamarra 2013 | Senegal/Spain | Wolof with Spanish subtitles 18 min.A documentary on Senegalese migration to Spain,

inviting the viewer to reflect on the experience of leaving home to work abroad. The film interweaves the stories of young Senegalese men. One of them works in the fishing industry; the other one opts for local development in Senegal through a self-employment project. Filmed in Galicia and parts of Senegal.

Todos vos sodes capitns (You are all Captains)Directed by Oliver Laxe2011 | Morocco/Spain | Galician, French and Arabic with English subtitles | 78 min.A visual essay, halfway between documentary film

and fiction, which simultaneously depicts the Maghreb and tells the story of Oliver, a teacher who proposes making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers (Morocco). Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.

Workshop in collaboration with

10:30 a.m. Welcome by H. Rosi Song and Benita Sampedro Vizcaya10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Film screening of Sahara Chronicle and El espectculo (The Performance)12:30-1:30 p.m. Debate moderated by Habiba Boumlik, La Guardia Community College3-4:40 p.m. Film screening of Tann Sa Yoon and Todos vos sodes capitns (You are all Captains)4:40-6 p.m. Debate moderated by Mara Teresa Cabo, Director, Galician Film Festival of New York