Gendered Labor: Myths, Orality and Technology

with STEPHANIE COMILANG, FATOU KANDÉ SENGHOR
moderated by MADHUSREE DUTTA

As against the well-circulated big history, big cinema and big modernity, women scholars, artists and filmmakers have been consistently talking about non-industrialized labor, pre-cinematic narrative forms and feminine knowledge systems. The two filmmakers Stephanie Comilang and Fatou Kandé Senghor are deeply invested in their non-European / off-European narrative legacy, and its impact on their respective artistic idioms is evident in their films. The panel will discuss further how image-making itself is part of the labor trajectory.