ABSTRACT

The Western gaze instituted by the cinematographic apparatus constructs racialized subjects and supports processes of dispossession. My present transmedial artistic research project engages with the biopolitics of representation in archival film material, from a decolonial perspective. By drawing from academic and non-academic sources on relations between colonialism, capitalism, and technologies of control, this paper studies manifestations of surveillance in non-fiction film, to analyse the proto-genre of medical propaganda in former European colonies. Moreover, it proposes to scrutinize the long-term impact colonial cinema and its structures of representation had and still have on processes of subjectification, haunting present-day gender and race-determined profiling by mainstream film, CCTV, and drones.

摘要

电影摄影装置所建立的西方凝视构建了种族化的主题并支持剥夺的过程。我目前的跨媒体艺术研究项目从非殖民化的角度研究档案电影材料中表现的生命政治学。本文通过借鉴关于殖民主义、资本主义和控制技术之间关系的学术和非学术资料，研究非虚构电影中的监视表现，以分析前欧洲殖民地医疗宣传的原始类型。此外，它还建议审视殖民电影及其再现结构对主体化过程的长期影响，以及主流电影、中央电视台和无人机对当今性别和种族定性的困扰。