MOBILITY AND MIGRATION IN FILM, VIDEO ART, AND INSTALLATION This course explores the ways recent cinematic and artistic works engage Europe's increasingly diverse and complex relationship to migration. We will examine various types of films, videos, and cinematic installations that concern migratory networks, infrastructures, and places across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With a specific focus on diverse forms of im/mobility such as labor migration, postcolonial migration, undocumented migration, refugee mobilities, and tourism, we will study the work of established filmmakers such as Abdellatif Kechiche, Ayse Polat, Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Stephen Frears, Michael Winterbottom, and Tony Gatlif as well as video essays and installations of artists such as Kutlug Ataman, Isaac Julien, Ursula Biemann, Laura Waddington, Mona Hatoum, Adrian Paci, Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo. Joining formal questions of aesthetic experimentation to sociopolitical concerns, we will draw on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, projected image art, and mobility studies to perform historically situated close readings of films and artworks.

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