Thursday 16th November 2023
Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University

‘Wales, Nigeria and Cinema: The Berlin Years’ - Branwen Okpako
Filmmaker and Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, University of California, Davis.

Branwen Okpako evaluates how the experience of making the film about her Welsh heritage, 'Searching for Taid' (1998), defined her aesthetics and filmmaking style. The lecture weaves in Branwen’s personal relationship with the work of Richard Burton with reference to the film 'Cleopatra'. ‘In cinema’, notes Okpako, ‘the audience is both the pilot and the passenger’ and the lecture explores the role of cinema in the struggle to define oneself legibly to a society for whom one is invisible.

The Richard Burton Lecture is part of an annual series of prestigious events led by the Richard Burton Centre in collaboration with the Cultural Institute at Swansea University.

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