students' program VI

Three women unearth and reflect on their mem­o­ries of wit­ness­ing and sup­port­ing the Burn­sall Strike, a 1992 work­ers’ resis­tance move­ment that Pun­jabi women led in Smeth­wick, Birm­ing­ham. From within their … read more

On the south­east coast of Eng­land, the unsta­ble nature of the coast­line seems to give rise to mys­ti­cal more-than-human encoun­ters. Set over the course of a single tidal cycle—from low … read more

As Indone­sia is moving its new cap­i­tal from Jakar­ta to Nusan­tara (also known as IKN), a brand-new city near the forests in Borneo, a Chi­nese-born anthro­pol­o­gy stu­dent inves­ti­gates super­nat­ur­al sto­ries within var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties around the con­struc­tion site. She encoun­ters local ances­tors, the president’s spirit, and her own unex­pect­ed ghosts. Who are the specters haunt­ing the con­struc­tion? What do the “ghosts” think? Through her let­ters to her mother, the researcher seeks answers about the ten­sions between the local people and the nation­al project, the cal­cu­la­tions between a good life and devel­op­ment, and the bond of the living and the dead.

Yuefei You is a doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er, born in a small town of South­ern China and grad­u­at­ed from Visual Anthro­pol­o­gy (cum laude) at Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam in 2024. About her own artis­tic work she states that her camera cares about how human’s affec­tion and imag­i­na­tion are entan­gled with their envi­rons, both the soci­eties within human­i­ty and those more-than-human.