CAS TALK: Without Misty Eyes: Documentary, African Women and Representation

Without Misty Eyes: Documentary, African Women and Representation

How can the gaps, silences, and blind spots around representations of African femininity be redressed? Drawing from own films, issues of agency, intervention, and [nuanced] representational autonomy underly the presentation’s reflexive verve.

Florence Ayisi is professor of International Documentary Film at the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of South Wales, U.K.

Ayisi is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker with extensive experience of producing documentary films in national and international contexts, including Cameroon, Tanzania and in the U.K. Her first feature documentary, Sisters in Law, (co-directed with Kim Longinotto, 2005), was longlisted for an Academy Award (Oscars) in 2006. Her documentaries have won prestigious film awards and have been screened at film festivals and on TV Channels worldwide.