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Technological advances in audio-visual means of communication have resulted in a democratisation of “cinema”. Now it has become possible for anyone with as little as just a smartphone to shoot, edit and distribute films. Among all of these previously “voiceless” peoples, refugees have made particularly eye-opening films. This chapter draws on such grassroots works to show how refugees have found agency in their filmmaking and how this filmmaking is part of their collective struggle for a better life. The author connects these works with his own experience as a political refugee from Iran making first-person narrative documentaries during his journey and immediately after arriving in the UK.
Keywords: Accented Cinema ; Activist Filmmaking ; Diasporic Cinema ; Diasporic Filmmaking ; Digital Cinema ; Digital Filmmaking ; Exilic Cinema ; Exilic Filmmaking ; Imperfect Cinema ; Kurdish Cinema ; Low-Budget Filmmaking ; Low-Resolution Footage ; Non-Cinema
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