MIRANDA MUNGAI

I am a freelance documentary film curator, events producer, and facilitator experimenting with post-screening discussion.

I source films, and facilitate discussions in response to the themes and ideas that emerge from the films. By mediating the world, film acts a starting point for discussion, offering space to reflect on and discuss contemporary and historical issues.

The intention is simply to exercise our capacity for collective enquiry. The open-discussion format invites everyone to participate in a conversation at a time of great division, social atomisation and loneliness.

The themes of discussions respond to a contemporary issue or struggle. Each concern tends to be representative of larger, more abstract issues. Usually they point to some factor of limitation to the condition of possibility. The aim is to interrogate this limit-point and find contractions in seemingly steadfast systems, institutions and practices that make our world, and our life in it.

If you are looking for a facilitator for a post-screening dicussion, please get in touch.

Context

Processes

Dialogue

Environments

Placing images in new contexts that encourage expansive responses within broad themes. Offering room for images to have social value as well as artistic value.

Facilitating spaces that offer room to respond both to the works and to others. Finding moments of collective critical enquiry anchored in the image.

Prioritising processes - of thought, dialogue, imagining futures - above a pragmatic notion of completion. Remembering that the culmination of processes does not require a clear cut end goal. A process promises potential futures, centred on pushing the limits of what we know.

I experiment, within the means afforded me, with what an exhibition space can be. I encourage personal autonomy in a space, and playful interactions with the environment.