Mand/inga

Abstract

Mand/inga is an artistic research project that consists of creating a film from work with personal files and family stories, reviewing different documents of family scenes -objects, photos, dialogues, etc.-. In the process, we have reconstructed a series of short stories and descriptions that resonate with each other, and through which we can glimpse our common threads regarding issues such as religion, spirituality, gender, and migration. What we present as a film is, in fact, a temporary instantiation of an insistent re-creation of our memories and reflections. By continuously re-presenting the different situations in the space of an imagined film, we open a process of constant restructuring of our narrations. The text flirts with elements of autoethnography and self-theory, as well as formal experimentation inspired by feminist experimental cinema. We see it as a way of researching our possible ways of appearing as queer, colored, and migrant bodies, both politically and on a screen.