Workshop 'Making the Invisible Visible: Co-creative cinematographic storytelling across Indigenous and legal worlds '
- Voor wie
- Medewerkers , Studenten
- Wanneer
- 11-12-2025 van 14:00 tot 16:30
- Waar
- Room John Vincke (3rd floor), Technicum 1, 9000 Ghent
- Voertaal
- Engels
- Door wie
- Human Rights Research Network
- Contact
- hanna.kozachenko@ugent.be
- Website
- https://hrrn.ugent.be/event/workshop-making-the-invisible-visible/
This workshop invites PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to reflect collectively on the process of co-developing two “twin documentaries” as part of legal ethnographic research in Nepal and Colombia within the ERC project RIVERS: Human Rights Beyond the Human (2019–2026).
Bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers, researchers, and artists, the session explores how co-creative visual storytelling can intersect with socio-legal inquiry to construct narratives that reflect Indigenous perspectives on nature, law, and justice.
Through transdisciplinary collaboration, the documentaries blend immersive cinematography with collective narrative-building, exposing tensions between Indigenous knowledge systems and extractivist legal orders while imagining alternative legal futures grounded in pluralism, spirituality, and resistance.
The workshop invites critical discussion on the ethical, political, and methodological challenges of visual storytelling in contexts shaped