Telling Object Stories: Film, Peoples and Plants in the Amazon – 15 May 2017

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TELLING OBJECT STORIES: FILM, PEOPLES AND PLANTS IN THE AMAZON

Monday, 15 May 2017, 6-7.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

Kew Gardens holds fascinating artefacts collected by the botanist Richard Spruce, who travelled in South America in the nineteenth century. In this roundtable, Luciana Martins (Birkbeck) and the Derek Jarman Lab’s Bea Moyes and Bartek Dziadosz screen and discuss the making of The Many Lives of a Shield, a short film that follows the story of this ceremonial shield.

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This film is part of the collaborative project Mobilising the value of biocultural collections in Brazil funded by Newton Fund – British Council.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies

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