Transnational Flows in Militant Third World Filmmaking Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

The Department of Film Studies is delighted to host the bi-annual NECS/IMACS lecture, which takes place in-person at St Andrews for the first time.

Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) will deliver a talk titled “Transnational Flows in Militant Third World Filmmaking.”

Since Solanas and Gettino issued their 1969 manifesto for a “Third Cinema” in the countries then identified as belonging to the Third World, political filmmaking in Latin America, Asia and Africa has taken shape not just within a national framework, but as an internationalist phenomenon, typified by cross-cultural solidarity and cooperation, which took the form of film projects, conferences, festivals and embryonic attempts to build up enduring infrastructure to accommodate these global movements of film production and distribution. Utilising the world-systems theory of economists such as Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder Frank and Samir Amin, Daniel Fairfax will argue for understanding Third Cinema as a counter-hegemonic world system active in the cultural sphere, which had the paradoxical goal common to all revolutionary art of upending the economic order it was compelled to operate within.