Who Tells the Story? Power, Consent, and Representation in Film: The Double-Edged Sword of Empathy in Cinema
by Zhena Faith Omojola Zhena Omojola is a senior at UC Berkeley majoring in Film & Media with a minor in Human Rights. She is passionate about the intersections of storytelling and law, particularly human rights and intellectual property. Currently, she interns with the Criminal Law and Justice Center at Berkeley Law and serves as […]
Sounding the Archive: Sonic Strategies in Panorama Ephemera (2004) and The Natural History of Destruction (2022)
Students taking the course Global Media (Film 145) in Spring 2025, taught by Deniz Göktürk and Kayla Rose van Kooten, learned about everyday practices of documentary film production in works from around the world. A key question arising in discussions of documentary cinema is the relationship of the audiovisual medium to real events. In the following blog post, Yansu Tan […]