06 Dec 11/12/24 Hannah Jayanti
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Hannah Jayanti
Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12PM – 1:30PM ET
Documentary as Practice: Ethics and Politics Through Curiosity and Care.
Through her work, Hannah will explore the idea of documentary as a life practice. Ethics and politics will be explored through centering practices of care, attunement, and love—while risking being changed by what we turn our cameras towards. Framing documentary as a fertile space of contestation, she advocates for the importance of making projects that are attuned to the values of the film, collaborators, and communities. Through this, documentary is presented as a powerful space of possibility that allows us to confront extractive tendencies, while opening up cracks for modeling different ways of being in the world.
Hannah Jayanti is a documentary filmmaker, organizer, and educator. Her work centers process-driven and formally expansive nonfiction as ethical and political practices of being in the world. Through this lens, she circles around questions of landscape, listening, memory, and time. Her organizing work includes co-creating spaces that model mutual-aid practices while creating surprising futures. As an educator, she focuses on mentorship and low-cost media training through nonfiction art spaces and community centers. www.hannahjayanti.com.
Moderated by: Mandy Rose