IPPI-Med Seminar Screening-Debate on the history of Armenia as told by women

Images du politique et politiques de l'image en Méditerranée (IPPI Med) is an inter-laboratory seminar (Mesopolhis, Iremam, Prism), supported by the European Commission. MMSH and coordinated by Philippe AldrinPascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier and Vincent Geisser.

Wars, genocides and exiles are captured and portrayed by documentary and fiction writers and directors. These human tragedies, which are part of history, have often given rise to 'external', distanced accounts, sometimes interspersed with eyewitness accounts. By choosing to immerse themselves in scenes of everyday life around the making of bread, a practice inherited from ancestors and passed down from generation to generation, the documentaries "Tonratun and "Around the Tanur tell other stories that are not only domestic but also deeply political.

Programme

1.30 pm - 4 pm: screening/discussion : "Tonratun, the story of Armenia told by womenby Inna Mkhitaryan, 84 min, 2022

In an Armenian village, five women who are daughters, mothers and grandmothers tell each other their stories and debate life and war together while preparing for the next Armenian holiday. lavashtraditional Armenian bread. The tonratun (the bakehouse) is the place where women can talk openly about things considered shameful and embarrassing in Armenian society with its patriarchal tradition. While the men are away, they talk to each other by the fire and mix their tears with the flour. Their words and laughter are now their daily bread.
Discussed by : Stéphane Cermakian (Aix-Marseille University/IREMAM)

4pm - 7pm: screening/discussion : " Around Tanur ", by Assaf Dahdah, Gaël Marsaud and Burhan Roto, 50 min, 2023

Building a tanurMaking bread. Put down roots here, live now. Coming from elsewhere, talking about before. A Yezidi family copes with exile, recomposes itself between France and Iraq, tells its story, and works in the fields. A three-way look at a hybrid object that combines an investigative approach with a desire to remember.
Discussed by : Lama Kabbanji (IRD/LPED) and Stéphane Cermakian (Aix-Marseille University/IREMAM)

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All the information about the day is also available online here: https://www.iremam.cnrs.fr/fr/seminaire-inter-laboratoires-ippi-med-autour-de-lhistoire-de-larmenie-racontee-par-les-femmes
Find out more about IPPI-Med : https://www.mmsh.fr/interdisciplinaire/ippimed-i-images-du-politique-et-politiques-de-limage-en-mediterranee-2023-2024/

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