Genevieve Yue

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Genevieve Yue is an associate professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is co-editor of the Cutaways book series at Fordham University Press, a member of the October advisory board, and an independent film programmer. Her essays and criticism have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Grey Room, MUBI Notebook Magazine, October, Representations, Reverse Shot, The Times Literary Supplement, World Records, and elsewhere. She is the author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (2020), and is currently working on two book projects: one on trains and cinema, and the other on the material history of Hollywood. She is passionate about rescuing injured birds.

Yue’s lecture will address recent, contested film festival spaces that had manifested as sites of pro-Palestinian protest: at IDFA and at the Berlinale. She draws on a history of militant actions focused on the screening space, including Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino’s clandestine screenings of The Hour of the Furnaces, and various incendiary events at Knokke-le-Zoute. Against the liberal model of “post-screening discussion” popularized by places like the Flaherty Seminar — what she calls, in her words, “somewhat derisively,” a “performed populism” — these more radical disruptions and the violent suppression they are met with reveal the fascistic mechanisms of control that underlie otherwise liberal democratic institutions.

More information please check out Yue’s website.