'Citizen Film: What We Carry With Us | Memory Objects (2019)'

'Citizen Film: What We Carry With Us | Memory Objects (2019)'
11:29 Jan 19, 2023
'What We Carry With Us  A Refugee Storylab  In an effort to better understand and respond to the worst refugee crisis since the 1940s, the San Francisco-based documentary firm Citizen Film and The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life have been immersed in a multi-year initiative that brings refugees together to tell their stories and engage audiences in reflection and dialogue.   Assuming the role of curators in an ongoing series of public exhibitions and events, refugees ranging in age from 18 to 25 gather their most prized possessions and explore those belongings in films, interactive audiovisual installations, and digital maps.   Designed collaboratively by refugees and a team of filmmakers, digital artists, museum curators, and students enrolled in the UC Berkeley course, \"Mapping Diasporas,\" taught by Prof. Francesco Spagnolo, a growing collection of objects and multimedia art offers a striking glimpse of what it means to leave home, when home, in the words of refugee poet Warsan Shire, “is the mouth of a shark.”   Included in the exhibition, \"Memory Objects: Judaica Collections, Global Migrations\" (2019) More at http://bit.ly/memoryobjects  --- The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life University of California, Berkeley magnes.berkeley.edu' 

Tags: collection , art , jewish , History , culture , california , religion , berkeley , Judaism (Religion) , themagnes , magnes , ucberkeley

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