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 […]
A Satirical Promotion: Sergei Loznitsa Goes to the Opera
In January/February 2025, the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive welcomed renowned Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa for a ten-day residency. Loznitsa’s Mosse Lecture on February 5, 2025, was the opening event of this spring’s Documentary Voices series, co-curated by Kate MacKay and Professor Deniz Göktürk. Raiden Shields, a student in Professor Göktürk’s UC Berkeley course […]
I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again
TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 2 by Hannes Bajohr translated by Kayla Rose van Kooten Download PDF Click here for translator’s critical introduction Click here for “Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form” As a child I had a dentition that indicated an unconventional division between a Jawling and a Pondhead. The Jawling was rooted […]
Litterae ex Machina: AI Going Down the Rabbit Hole
TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 2 by Kayla Rose van Kooten Download PDF Click here for translation Since the release of ChatGPT to the public in November 2022, Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models have swept the world by storm. They have risen to fame both for their highly articulate and detailed responses to almost any […]
Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form
Commentary on: “I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again” TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 2 by Hannes Bajohr translated by Kayla Rose van Kooten Download PDF Click here for translator’s introduction Click here for “I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again” I. The boundaries […]
“A Second Attack”
TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 2 by Çetin Gültekin and Mutlu Koçak translated by Elizabeth Sun Download PDF Click here for translator’s preface From the outside, we were now ready to prepare my brother for his final journey. On the inside, we could never be ready, because what awaited us was not meant to be seen by […]
Translator’s Preface
TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 2 by Elizabeth Sun Download PDF Click here for translation “Going into the kiosk felt like coming home. Everything was familiar here. It was a refuge from the harshness and coldness of the outside world, offering a feeling of warmth and security. I realize how absurd this sounds, knowing that my […]
Critical Reflection on The English Translation of Nava Ebrahimi’s “The Cousin”
TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 2 by Kelsi Morefield Download PDF Click here for translation In her Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winning short story The Cousin, Ebrahimi imagines how stories of migration might be translated across languages and through art. The two characters, Iranian cousins of similar age, are like Doppelgänger who meet again to deduce how their twin […]
“The Cousin”
TRANSIT vol. 14, no.2 by Nava Ebrahimi’s translated by Kelsi Morefield Download PDF Click here for Translor’s Critical Introduction The photo of his body covers meters of the facade of Lincoln Center. “What do you think?” he asks me. “Wow,” I say. Without averting my gaze, I get out of the taxi. The wind lifts my […]