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Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay
For my MFA, I aimed to reflect on my personal experiences and family history through the medium of a film essay and installation. By showing it in a public space, I hope to start a conversation about how white South Africans can reimagine their role within the decolonisation project as one that is a...
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| author | Heilig, Megan-Leigh |
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| description | For my MFA, I aimed to reflect on my personal experiences and family history through the medium of a film essay and installation. By showing it in a public space, I hope to start a conversation about how white South Africans can reimagine their role within the decolonisation project as one that is active, present and uncomfortable. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/39236 Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay Heilig, Megan-Leigh Siopis, Penny Josephy, Svea Fine Arts For my MFA, I aimed to reflect on my personal experiences and family history through the medium of a film essay and installation. By showing it in a public space, I hope to start a conversation about how white South Africans can reimagine their role within the decolonisation project as one that is active, present and uncomfortable. 2024-03-11T13:56:14Z 2024-03-11T13:56:14Z 2018 2024-03-11T11:44:45Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39236 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities |
| spellingShingle | Fine Arts Heilig, Megan-Leigh Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay |
| title_full | Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay |
| title_fullStr | Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay |
| title_full_unstemmed | Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay |
| title_short | Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay |
| title_sort | not making big rocks small decolonising and queering the archive through personal narrative in the film essay |
| topic | Fine Arts |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39236 |
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