Wendy Morris, a South African artist and animated filmmaker who lives and works in Belgium, has made three animated films on the First World War and is currently working on a fourth. Morris’ films are metaphorical and associational works that explore Belgian remembering of the War against a forgetting of its own colonial transgressions, compare the experiences of black and white South African participants in the War and, through the story of the sinking of the SS Mendi, consider whether we can or should remember events to which we were not witness
In this lecture she will talk about her working method and the complexities of translating ideas and research into animated images. During the lecture she will be showing the short films Bully Beef (2006), Off the Record (2008), FYI (2013) and discussing the work in progress, This, of course, is a work of the imagination (2017).
More information on Morris can be found at https://morriswendy.wordpress.com.
Wendy Morris has been artist in residence at In Flanders Fields Museum and is senior researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain.
In Flanders Fields Museum, Gateways to the First World War and the University of Kent present a series of eight seminars, free and open to all.
Seminars will take place in Canterbury during the autumn term and in Ypres during the spring term.
Venue: Keynes Seminar Room 13, University of Kent
