Engelska

This book is about the intangible cultural heritage of the remaining The Livpeople in Latvia. There are only a few known persons still using the native language of the Livpeople. Today, when one language is disappearing on average every two weeks, the language of the Livs is also on UNESCO´s list of endangered languages.

Bridging the gulf between aesthetics and politics, artist and film-maker Petra Bauer reflects on her own experience of making political films and launches a theoretical argument that uncovers the aesthetic mechanisms underlying contemporary strategies for collective and feminist film-making. An exploration in artistic research, the book draws on an extensive historical archive of radical film-making and film theory, with particular focus on the British film collectives of the 1970s and films made by Palestinian and Israeli film-makers. At the investigation's core stands Sisters!, Bauer's collaborative film project with the London-based feminist organisation Southall Black Sisters.