17th EASA Biennial Conference
EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the
Commons
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast
26-29 July, 2022
EASA2022 Belfast - Film programme
22 accepted films as list 4 days 12 sessionsFilm programme 7
Thursday 28 July
Film Screening + Q/A: 9:00-10:45
LIVE Q/A: 10:30
Lauren’s video diary
Stefano started filming Lauren's life in 2014. At that time, Lauren was a teenager living in precarious housing conditions on the outskirts of Madrid, and Stefano was a PhD candidate working on youth migration. Their experimental collaborations continued for a couple of years. Then Stefano's doctoral scholarship ended, and the possibility to produce a collaborative documentary movie went on stand-by. Over the years, however, they kept imagining working together on this project, each of them with different motivations and positionalities. Finally, the opportunity presented itself with the EU-funded project "Resilience and Resignation among Transnational Roma and non-Roma Youths" (RETRY, 2019-2022). Unfortunately, the pandemic broke out shortly before they could meet in Romania, where Lauren had eventually returned with his family. So, towards the end of 2020, Stefano sent him a smartphone and invited him to record his life. This video is Lauren's diary of that period. Stefano's chapter "Combining Participatory and Audiovisual Methods with Young Roma Affected by Mobility" (2021) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67608-7_10 provides an ethnographic and reflexive account of the first audiovisual encounters and collaborations between Stefano and Lauren.
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