Ayouni, My eyes, my love (2020)
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
: B - Film
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Film
- Output identifier
- 547770
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- "Ayouni uses participatory documentary filmmaking as a method to engage with issues of forcible disappearance in Syria and to assess the global reach of information about the disappeared. Building on Fedda's previous research in visual anthropology and on displacement and trauma in the Middle East, the film asks how filmmaking can serve as an ethical intervention to make those disappeared visible and share the stories of those who have been silenced. The film used anthropological methods to document the disappearance of two individuals (political activist Bassel Safadi and Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Oglio) and the efforts of their families to obtain information and keep their situation in the public eye. It gives new insight into their stories by drawing extensively on personal archive material and family videos to which Fedda had privileged access. By documenting and tracking the relationships between individuals and contemporary political movements, and working collaboratively with international organisations (Amnesty International, the Syria Campaign, Families for Freedom) Fedda investigates, exposes and publicly challenges crimes of forcible disappearance enacted by the Assad regime.
The research was presented at Sciences sociales et conflit(s) en Syrie: enjeux épistémologique, méthodologiques et éthiques, at the EHSS, Paris (2016) and at the "Media and Middle East Symposium" at the University of East Anglia (2020). The film was officially selected for film industry pitches in film festivals in Cairo, Beirut, and Sheffield (2015-2017). The world premiere was at CPH:Dox festival in March 2020 and the film featured at the Middle East Now Festival in Florence (2020). The impact strategy included panels on the film organised with the Syria Campaign and Reclaim the Frame (2020). The focus for the Syria Campaign in 2020 was to increase public awareness of the issue of forced disappearance that occurred in Daesh held areas; Ayouni was pivotal in this process."
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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