Episode Summary:

This candid conversation with Saeed Taji Farouky, an award-winning filmmaker specialising in long-term human rights projects and social justice, made me think of Andrei Tarkovsky’s vision on cinema - an instrument of art equal to prose. Today, we discussed everything from the authenticity of the crafted narrative to the ethical decisions that Saeed had to make while filming I See the Stars at Noon, the misrepresentation of the Arab world by the Western Media to how his practice dynamically communicates underrepresented stories such as that of Tell Spring Not to Come This Year, the dilemmas of information ownership and neo-colonialism to understanding the role of a documentary filmmaker in and outside the film.

The Speaker:

Saeed Taji Farouky is a Palestinian-British award-winning filmmaker and artist who has been producing work around themes of conflict, human rights and colonialism since 1998. His 2015 documentary Tell Spring Not to Come This Year won the Amnesty International Award and the Audience Choice Panorama Award at Berlinale ’15. In 2011, he was named a Senior TED Fellow, and he was previously named Artist-In-Residence at the British Museum and Tate Britain. He has been a regular human rights speaker and educator with Amnesty International for 10 years and has been teaching filmmaking and cinematography since 2009.

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Host: Farah Piriye

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