Dis/Orienting the Border: The Poetics of Disorientation in Avant-Garde Accented Narratives
Dis/Orienting the Border: The Poetics of Disorientation in Avant-Garde Accented Narratives

Summary/Abstract: In a world where politics has adopted an increasingly anti-migrant rhetoric, it is important to see how these films give a voice to the otherwise disenfranchised. Avantgarde accented cinema invites audiences to reflect, together with Akerman and Hatoum on how the migrant’s liminal subjectivity comes into being. Hence, their works function as crystals of time, allowing spectators to dis/orient boundaries by seeing through the migrant’s fragmentary vision, and to experience, through the lens of the camera, the asynchronous spatio-temporal configuration of migration. In doing so, avant-garde accented films dismantle mainstream media’s metanarratives that present the migrant’s experience as one-dimensional and linear.

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