“Films create worlds. They do not passively mimic or directly display what is ‘out there,’ but actively reshape elements of the lived world and twist them in new ways that are projected onscreen and given over to an audience. The attraction and promise of cinema [are] the way films offer glimpses into the other worlds, even if only for ninety minutes at a time."
We acknowledge the people and entities outside of Harvard who collectively play an integral role in the creation of our film festival.
This year we are hosting a virtual festival that takes place online with the cooperation of many interconnected systems and services that take up physical space and have real world impacts. Sometimes those systems take up space on lands stolen from human and nonhuman animals. And sometimes on lands worked by stolen humans and nonhuman animals.
We acknowledge our power and that our actions appear to...