Ethnographic Fictions, with Laura Huertas Millán

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Part of the series Global Ecologies, this event is a screening of a selection of Laura Huertas Millán's award-winning work. Her short films entwine ethnography, ecology, fiction, and historical investigation. Her most recent series engages with the coca plant in Amazonia, exploring its non-human subjectivity, cosmological uses, and the war on drugs in Colombia. After the screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmaker in conversation with Bernadette Wegenstein, professor of media studies and director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and Naveeda Khan, associate professor of anthropology.

Laura Huertas Millán is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist, whose practice stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art, and research. Her work has been shown in major cinema festivals such as the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel, and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou Paris, Jeu de Paume, and Guggenheim Museum in New York. She holds a practice-based PhD on "Ethnographic Fictions" developed between PSL University (SACRe program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). She works regularly as an educator and, since 2019, is part of a research-based duo with curator Rachael Rakes on critical anthropology and the aesthetics and politics of the encounter.

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