Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals

This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures.Beginning with the question of what and whose knowledge Side Table is privileged, we seek to understand how film festivals, from Pilsner Beer Glasses inception to production, engage with knowledge paradigms to dismantle matrices of power and perform and promote artistic representations of sovereignty.The contributions theorize and historicise (de)colonial frameworks for engaging with all aspects of film festivalisation.