Reel Borders studies how borders are imagined through film





November  17,  2022 


Migratlantes: Encuentro de Migraciones Atlánticas. The emotional landscapes of borders: a gaze through film




On 17 November 2022, Silvia Almenara-Niebla participated as guest-speaker in the panel “Cinema and Borders” at Migratlantes Conference, hosted by the Canary Islands’ government (Spain) and the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in La Laguna, Tenerife.

In her presentation "The emotional landscapes of borders: a glimpse through film" she highlighted the emotional impact of borders for the people who are traversed by them, emphasising how the emotions elicited by film allow us to understand the situated meaning of borders. She also presented to the Migratlantes community the Reel Borders project and the work developed by the team in Ireland and Ceuta and Melilla.

More information about the conference here.







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Funded by the European Research Council.
Starting Grant #948278

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