This week's focus is colonial chic in light of the touted and actual removal of Gone with the Wind (1939) from a number of programmes and archives due to its racist outlook. We discuss themes of colonialism and postcolonialism through film, namely the above and Jane Austen's work, and their filmic representations. As the saying goes, it’s not what you're looking at, it’s what you see.
Our picks this week are the Encounters Film Festival—GET YOUR PASS—and its expert, sharp-eyed curating—only £10 gives you access to hundreds of excellent and very entertaining short films, as well as discussions, Q&As and so on; and the Nordisk Panorama, which showcases Nordic feature documentaries and short films. The festival will be over by the time this comes out, but do check the website to browse the winning docs and archives. And lastly, a treat for genre fans, horror and fantastic festival Grimmfest, which is completely online this year and boasts new films, old films, and for the first time a cool-looking comic! Abla mentions a couple of series: The Vow, available on HBO, a mind-boggling expose of MLM-cum-self-improvement course-cum mad sex cult NXIVM and its incredibly underwhelming leader Keith Raniere—and the BBC miniseries Des, David Tennant’s uncanny portrayal of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
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Top Picks is hosted by two of film programmers and social researchers behind myDylarama film reviews. We use postcolonial, afro-pessimism, and Bourdieusian theories to discuss race and class in drama, documentary, mystery, and horror films. Now in its 10th year, myDy champions independent film and in using the medium as a platform for underrepresented and oft-ignored voices. myDy is official partner of the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, and collaborates with The Media Fund, ByWire, and Emerging Filmmakers Night.
Abla Kandalaft, co-founder of myDylarama, is a trilingual film programmer, researcher, journalist and translator. She is passionate about economics, environmental issues, migration, and politics; and has worked with BBC, Cannes Film Festival, and BFI. Coco Green is an aspiring academic and armchair critic. When not discussing racism in film, both on Top Picks and in the streets, she is writing about black counterpublics in hopes of completing her PhD.
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