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One-Day Workshop
Media and Migration
From Africa to Spain:
The Politics of Containment
The African Studies Program, European Studies Program,
Labor Studies Program, Center for Civic Engagement
and the
Hofstra Cultural Center
present a
Friday, October 10, 2014
10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 3-6 p.m.
This daylong event, organized by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Hofstra University, and H. Rosi Song, Bryn Mawr
College, features lm screenings and two round-table discussions on the intersections of media, migration, Africa,
and Spain. Scholars from the tri-state area and Pennsylvania will debate on labor and human rights, borders,
the politics of mobility and containment, trans-Saharan routes, Afro-European relations, the Maghreb and
West Africa, Spain, Galicia and Catalua.
For more information, please contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.
Sahara Chronicle
Directed by Ursula Biemann
2007 | Sahara Desert/Switzerland
English subtitles | 75 min.
Sahara Chronicle encompasses a number of
short videos documenting the present
sub-Saharan exodus toward Europe. Taking a close look at the
modalities and logistics of the migration system in the Sahara, the
project examines the politics of mobility, visibility and containment,
which lie at the heart of current global geopolitics. The material is
gathered during three eld trips to major gates and nodes of the
trans-Saharan network in Morocco, Mauritania and Niger where
migratory intensity is bundled. No voice-over narrative strings
these stories together. Meaning has to be extracted from the
interstices between the documents, from the stretch of the journey
that is most invisible to the eye.
El espectculo
(The Performance)
Directed by Erika Snchez y Xavi Esteban
2012 | Western Sahara/Spain | Hassaniya and
Arabic with English subtitles | 30 min.
An experimental audiovisual exercise tracing the
story of children from the Western Sahara refugee camps, spending
their summer vacation with host families in Catalua. The lm
features three protagonists: the group of young children, a
Saharawi friend in exile, and a play. Filmed in El Prat (Barcelona).
Tann Sa Yoon
(Choose Your Path)
Directed by Martn F. Gamarra
2013 | Senegal/Spain | Wolof with
Spanish subtitles 18 min.
A documentary on Senegalese migration to Spain,
inviting the viewer to reect on the experience of leaving home to
work abroad. The lm interweaves the stories of young Senegalese
men. One of them works in the shing industry; the other one opts
for local development in Senegal through a self-employment project.
Filmed in Galicia and parts of Senegal.
Todos vos sodes capitns
(You are all Captains)
Directed by Oliver Laxe
2011 | Morocco/Spain | Galician, French and Arabic
with English subtitles | 78 min.
A visual essay, halfway between documentary lm
and ction, which simultaneously depicts the Maghreb and tells the
story of Oliver, a teacher who proposes making a lm with children
from a social center in Tangiers (Morocco). Because of his methods,
his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and
transforms the evolution of the project.
Workshop in collaboration with
10:30 a.m. Welcome by H. Rosi Song and Benita Sampedro Vizcaya
10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Film screening of Sahara Chronicle and El espectculo (The Performance)
12:30-1:30 p.m. Debate moderated by Habiba Boumlik, La Guardia Community College
3-4:40 p.m. Film screening of Tann Sa Yoon and Todos vos sodes capitns (You are all Captains)
4:40-6 p.m. Debate moderated by Mara Teresa Cabo, Director, Galician Film Festival of New York