As part of Open City Documentary Festival 2022

Can we truly be in a “golden age” for non-fiction film while the types of documentaries we readily have access to are so limited? Birds Eye View invites a conversation about diversity in form over formula, how filmmakers are making films in their own way, and where we can find them. Taking inspiration from If I Could Wish for Something by Dora García, and other titles premiering as part of the festival programme, this session aims to bring together creatives and curators to talk about documentary as a medium to imagine our own liberation. Rather than a “golden” age, how can we collectively conceive of a de-colonised, de-patriarchal and de-capitalist age for cinema?

Hosted by Melanie Iredale. Speakers include artists/filmmakers Elisabeth Subrin and Teresa A Braggs, and curator Shai Heredia.

This session will be followed by Birds Eye View hosted drinks.