This interdisciplinary seminar examines how Black on-screen presence in European popular culture is made visible and kept illegible. Often present yet monotonously imagined, Black figures are framed by a dominant gaze and confined to reduced registers of meaning, reproducing harmful tropes.

Students will discuss artistic and cinematic counter-strategies that challenge dominant audio-visual and narrative patterns.
The workshop will be preceded by a lecture titled
*“Filming with and from Within: On the Contre-Silhouette.“* Through a close reading of Alice Diop’s documentary /Nous/ (2021), Dr. Alexandre Diallo will propose the /contre-silhouette/ as a portable diagnostic tool for analyzing the representation of Black people in the French banlieues.
The workshop will take place in person only. Registration is optional (by May 10): marion.biet@kug.ac.at

Where: 2.105 Studio Tanz (UNIPOG2.234), Universität Salzburg, Erzabt-Klotz Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg

This workshop is part of the FWF project „Sonic Imaginaries of Africa in German Cinema 1930-2000“ led by Maria Fuchs in cooperation with the Doctorate School PLUS Popular Culture Studies at the University of Salzburg and the Zentrum für Genderforschung und Diversität Graz.