Film education in a migration society: A conversation

Abstract

In May 2020, during the lockdown in Germany and Austria due to the coronavirus pandemic, Manuel Zahn arranged to have an email conversation with Christine Kopf and Alejandro Bachmann. Since 2017, both have been a part of the project Intercultural Film Education, which is the central concern of the email exchange. Since the beginning of 2019, Manuel Zahn and his co-researcher Katja Lell have been involved with this project in the form of action research. The project has brought together people and institutions from the German-speaking field of film education, and it aims to foster an intercultural sensibility within that field. The conversation provides information about the history of the project and the project partners, as well as about the forms of work as a learning group. In addition, it discusses the central concepts (intercultural attitude, for example) and objectives of the project. This encompasses and touches upon ideas such as adopting an intercultural attitude as a teacher, the selection of films, the concrete form of seminars, the negotiation of normative concepts and the sustainable structural change of institutions in cultural education.