22 May 17:00-18:30: Displacement and Documentary Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
Event organised by Refugee Studies Centre
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
“Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2024
Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (Documentary filmmaker / University College London)
Themes of displacement, migration and hospitality have been at the heart of Marc Isaacs’ films for many years. From his documentation of refugees in Calais to his detailed studies of xenophobia among English communities, Isaacs has turned his camera on the complex lives and contradictory attitudes that surround us. A recent feature in Sight and Sound describes Isaacs’ filmmaking as capturing “a sense of transience and instability that is universal.” His films are “set in nebulous or liminal spaces” that take us deep into the lives of others. For this year’s Colson lecture, Marc will show clips from his films that deal most closely with themes of displacement and hospitality, discussing ethnographic representation and the process of documentary filmmaking with Tom Scott-Smith, RSC Director.”
