INT1: Between Cinema and Heritage: from screen memory to community resources
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| Monday, November 30, 2026 |
| 2:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
| RHMZ02 |
Paper / Session Submitter
Mr Boris Bakal
President And Art Director
Shadow Casters
Between Cinema and Heritage: from screen memory to community resources (interactive session + optional screenings)
Summary Abstract
This 90-minute interactive/multimedia session proposes cinema as a relational heritage practice and shared mnemonic infrastructure through which communities connect with the past, negotiate the present, and imagine possible futures. In dialogue with ACHS 2026’s Tūhono—weaving connections—relationality, and indigeneity, it treats moving images not as passive records but as active agents of dialogue, contestation, and collective meaning-making.
Drawing on Shadow Casters’ long-term project Between Heritage and Film (Croatia; rural, island, and urban contexts), the session links Critical Heritage Studies, film practice, and participatory pedagogy to frame heritage as dynamic, negotiated, and performative. Participants work with curated excerpts (European and Aotearoa/New Zealand cinema, plus student shorts) through three guided exercises: hypertextual place-reading, a brief memory-palace/mental-mapping drill, and heritage-to-resource storyboarding toward an intermedia “workshop-tour” model.
Optional screenings (separate) include Vitić Dances (Boris Bakal, 90’, https://vimeo.com/809468842/a5c5e41eba) and Anthony Lyons’ Red Zone (20’, https://vimeo.com/1086392944), with Q&A.
Drawing on Shadow Casters’ long-term project Between Heritage and Film (Croatia; rural, island, and urban contexts), the session links Critical Heritage Studies, film practice, and participatory pedagogy to frame heritage as dynamic, negotiated, and performative. Participants work with curated excerpts (European and Aotearoa/New Zealand cinema, plus student shorts) through three guided exercises: hypertextual place-reading, a brief memory-palace/mental-mapping drill, and heritage-to-resource storyboarding toward an intermedia “workshop-tour” model.
Optional screenings (separate) include Vitić Dances (Boris Bakal, 90’, https://vimeo.com/809468842/a5c5e41eba) and Anthony Lyons’ Red Zone (20’, https://vimeo.com/1086392944), with Q&A.
Biographies
Boris Bakal is a Croatian theatre and film director, intermedia artist, writer, and heritage activist whose work explores relational, site-specific and participatory practices. As co-founder of Shadow Casters, he has created projects across five continents and lectured internationally, weaving architecture, memory, and cinematic pedagogy into innovative heritage-focused methodologies. Antony Lyons is an artist and film-maker (Ireland & UK), concerned with creative ecological explorations and interpretations. Works include video+sonic+photographic installations and geopoetic assemblages, visual poems & creative documentary.
