African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies

Research project

London, UK

screenworlds.org

Description:

African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies’ is a  five-year, European Research Council-funded research project led by Professor Lindiwe Dovey and hosted at SOAS University of London (from 2019 to 2024). Through producing research films, video essays, edited books, articles, and toolkits, and through curating workshops, conversations, film screenings and panel discussions, the project explores in particular Africans’ contributions to the diverse, complex screen worlds that make up audiovisual cultures in our contemporary moment. It is also interested in putting African cinemas into conversation with other regional cinemas so that we can theorise global screen worlds in more inclusive, nuanced, decolonised ways.