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Event



Oltre i bordi

Screening with Director Simone Brioni
Mar 27, 2024 at - | Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329-A

Oltre i bordi screening poster

Film screening and Q&A with the director.

Stony Brook University professor Simone Brioni has spent the past ten years researching Italian colonialism. On a return visit to Italy, he discovered a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa (Eritrea and Ethiopia) in the 1930s by a distant relative who had been sent to document the colonial enterprise for the Fascist regime. This fortuitous discovery prompted considerations about the colonial gaze and its legacy. Though photography is often perceived by viewers as an unbiased documentation of historical events, in fact it provides a mediated interpretation of reality. In a narrative that interweaves personal reflections and collective history鈥攕hared by both colonizers and colonized鈥攖his film invites viewers to look 鈥渂eyond the frame鈥 of colonial photography.

In Italian, with English subtitles.

This event is cosponsored by the Center for Italian Studies.