Issue 34
Introduction

Cinema, Migration and Archives

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  • Josetxo Cerdán,
  • Miguel Fernández Labayen
Josetxo Cerdán
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Filmoteca Española
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Miguel Fernández Labayen
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/1030

Published 2022-07-01

Keywords

  • Migrant archive,
  • Film archives,
  • Migration,
  • Exile,
  • Colonialism.

How to Cite

Cerdán, J., & Fernández Labayen, M. (2022). Cinema, Migration and Archives. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (34), 7–18. https://doi.org/10.63700/1030

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Abstract

This article considers the relationship between cinema, migration and archives. Based on a historiographical approach, it explores the ways that archives of very different types have become key spaces for research and artistic creation related to human displacement and the consequences of colonialism. In this way, the notion of archive and its traditional relationship with the nation-state is challenged and redefined through the blurring of national and regional boundaries by migration experiences. In line with recent approaches to archival studies and migration studies, the article posits the idea of the migrant archive as a way of examining and activating the social, political, and material issues underlying all archives, arguing for the need to reconsider and question the relationship of the archive with human mobility flows through research and film production, and at the same time calling for public debate (in both academic and cinematic circles) about the mechanisms of control, the rationales of cultural heritage and the processes of past and present writing on migration and its representation in archives.

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