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Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 18, 2022May 19, 2022

From 1968 to 1973, the Nihon Documentarist Union did radical documentary work in Japan. They made two films in Okinawa before, during, and after its reversion.

Posted inBooks

Édouard Glissant Sought to Undermine the European Ideological Underpinnings of Colonization

Avatar photo by David Brazil February 10, 2022February 11, 2022

In conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Glissant proposed an Art Museum of the Americas.

Posted inFilm

The 500-Year-Old Ghost of a Conquistador Wanders Mexico

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

The documentary/fiction hybrid film 499 uses a fictional character to speak to real-life contemporary colonized people.

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Raoul Peck’s Frustratingly Incomplete Treatise on Colonialism

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer June 13, 2021June 14, 2021

For all its bluntness, Exterminate All the Brutes never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”

Posted inFilm

Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be

Avatar photo by Yasmina Price May 30, 2021May 28, 2021

Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings.

Posted inArt

What the “Nefertiti Hack” Tells Us About Digital Colonialism

by Sarah E. Bond May 24, 2021August 4, 2021

A hacked 3D scan of the famous sculpture shows how traditional models of heritage ownership might change in museums.

Posted inOpinion

On Nostalgia and Colonialism on the New Oregon Trail

Avatar photo by T.J. Tallie May 16, 2021May 17, 2021

What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?

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Teresita Fernández Depicts Caribbean Colonialism and Eco-Trauma

Avatar photo by Louis Bury January 2, 2021December 31, 2020

Fernández employs motifs of darkness and obscurity to hint at the something beyond what we see.

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At British Museum, a Promising But Flawed Start to Grappling With Colonialism

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer December 3, 2020January 11, 2021

“Empire and Collecting,” a new self-guided tour, reflects an attempt to help visitors understand the colonial origins of the collection.

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How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Katherine Blouin, Monica Hanna and Sarah E. Bond October 22, 2020August 4, 2021

From khakis to pith hats, certain items of clothing have become enduring emblems of European colonialism and particular scholars who know these problematic histories choose to engage in the aesthetics of colonialism in their everyday lives.

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Can We Unlearn Imperialism? Ariella Azoulay Offers Methods and Lessons

Avatar photo by Stephen Sheehi August 25, 2020October 27, 2021

In Potential History, the violence of photography saturates the very idea of European “progress,” resonating from Palestine to the Congo to Black America.

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The Filmmaker Who Investigated One Conspiracy, Only to Uncover Another

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 15, 2019August 16, 2019

Director Mads Brügger talks to Hyperallergic about his new documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld.

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