Critics' Choice VII: On Positionality
For the seventh time, Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker are organising the context programme Critics' Choice during the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
For this seventh edition all activities will revolve around the theme of Positionality. Positionality is a term originating from Anthropological Sciences, and commonly used to investigate and become aware of the positions from which we tell stories and how they relate to socially dominant and less-represented stories.
In On Positionality we will examine and extend this term beyond its traditional horizons and contemplate ways for the concept of positionality to become applicable in thinking, talking, writing, programming, mediating film and audiovisual arts. This will help us understand issues revolving around (the lack of) diversity and inclusion of journalism and the film industry. And at the same time, it touches upon the essence of the speaking positions of critics and film makers alike: In their work they relate from many positions and in multi-facetted ways to the films they create, discuss, reflect upon. For this part of the programme, Ekker and Linssen work together with Winnie Roseval, researcher at the Inclusive Education research group at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
Due to the phased structure of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, with a kick-off in February, The vive le cinéma exhibition together with the Eye Filmmuseum, a Cinema Regained programme in the spring and a public programme in June, the Critics' Choice will also be rolled out in different stages during the first half of 2021.
Critics' Choice VII – Bottled Songs 1-4 during IFFR 2021 in June
Critics' Choice VII – Note to the selection of Bottled Songs 1-4
by Jan Pieter Ekker and Dana Linssen
Critics' Choice VII – Bottled Songs 1-4
by Tara Judah
Critics' Choice VII – Reflection on Bottled Songs 1-4
by Lauren Alexander and Ghalia Elsrakbi of Foundland Collective
Critics' Choice VII – Q&A with Morehshin Allahyari & Kevin B. Lee
A conversation between Kevin B. Lee and Morehshin Allahyari.
Critics' Choice VII – On Positionality during IFFR 2021 in February
Critics' Choice VII – Beginning
by Beri Shalmashi
Critics' Choice VII – Seeing Through Feast
by Will DiGravio
Critics’ Choice VII – Vive le cinéma! at Eye Filmmuseum
Critics' Choice VII – Our Focus
by Kevin B. Lee
Critics' Choice VII – Reygadascope or The Intelligence of these Machines
by Lucía Salas / La vida útil
Critics' Choice VII – Rites of The Passage in the Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
by Catherine Grant and Deborah Martin
Critics' Choice VII – Space is the Moment
by Jan Pieter Ekker and Dana Linssen
Critics' Choice VII – The Stuff of Legends
by Cydnii Wilde Harris