MIgratIon

By The Chief Editors

We are excited to present the eighth issue of The Film Dispatch magazine, for which we have chosen the theme “Migration”. Our editorial team is made up of many international students, each of whom has a unique and intimate experience with migration. Beyond the multicultural status of the modern University, we wanted to investigate cinema’s response to an increasingly globalised world and, as we had hoped, the theme inspired considerations of the broad depth of expression found in postcolonial and diasporic cinemas, political narratives concerned with displacement or disorientation, “road movies”, and so much more. This issue also includes works which address migration’s more literal connotations of movement and motion. Our contributors responded to the prompt in wonderfully different ways, even surprising us with several critical analyses of animated motion pictures—a form often overlooked in discussions of migration. This issue also features the reviews of three films: Gaman (1978), Up (2009), and Rye Lane (2023), as well as short pieces touching upon the globalisation of cinema through streaming and discussing the internationally acclaimed Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). The carefully crafted analyses produced by these pieces, engaging with their various genres and forms, speak to the existing myriad of cinematic representations of migration.

A warm thank you to our proofreader and editorial team for working diligently to compile this issue. We also want to thank our social media team and web designers for their contributions and support. Your passion and dedication do not go unnoticed.

Please enjoy these pieces from our tremendous writers, and read on.

Your Chief Editors, Flora

& Yasmeena