Contested Representations: Making Images from Elsewhere

Irmgard Emmelhainz is an independent translator, writer, researcher, and lecturer based in Mexico City. She is the author of Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico’s Post-Neoliberal Conversion (SUNY Press, 2021), and Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Lives as Resistance (Vanderbilt University Press, 2022). She is a member of the SNCA in Mexico (National System for Arts Creators).

Olivier Hadouchi is a film curator and independent researcher working in Paris. Hadouchi holds a PhD in cinema studies and has lectured, published texts for magazines (in Third Text on the militant image, in CinémAction or in collective books on Heiny Srour, Jocelyne Saab, non-alignement, solidarity, and representations of the Algerian war of independence), and curated film programs about internationalism, third cinema, tricontinental film, images from the South, voices, protests, film, and poetry for Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Museum Reina Sofía (Madrid), Kunsthalle (Münster), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Mosaic Rooms (London), and CorsicaDoc festival; and gave lectures in cities such as Algiers, Beirut, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Tangiers, Santiago de Chile, Madrid, London, Lisbon, Prague, and Porto.

Khaled Saghieh is a Lebanese writer and journalist. He began his career at the Lebanese daily As-Safir. He was the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the daily Al-Akhbar until 2011. Between 2012 and 2015, Saghieh worked as Editor-in-Chief of the news department at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI). He is now the Managing Editor of the Megaphone news platform.

Stefan Tarnowski is an anthropologist whose research brings together political and media anthropology, with a particular focus on Lebanon and Syria and the aftermaths of their recent uprisings. He completed his dissertation at Columbia University in 2022, and is currently an early-career research fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and a postdoctoral researcher on the “Views of Violence” project at the University of Copenhagen. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Visual Anthropology, Film Quarterly, Review of Middle East Studies, and the London Review of Books.