Lizelle Bisschoff

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Lizelle Bisschoff
Alma mater University of Johannesburg, University of Edinburgh, University of Stirling
Employer University of Glasgow
Organization Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival

Lizelle Bisschoff is a South African film theorist, academic, curator and the founder of the Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival in Scotland which showcases African cinema.

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Biography

Bisschoff was born in South Africa. [1] [2]

She studied at the University of Johannesburg then moved to the United Kingdom to study a masters degree at the University of Edinburgh. [3] She holds a PhD from the University of Stirling. [1] She works as a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. [1]

In 2006, Bisschoff founded and directed he annual Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival in Scotland. [4] It is the United Kingdom's largest African film festival, [4] has screened over 500 African films [5] and takes place in both Glasgow and Edinburgh towards the end of October each year. [5] AiM gained charitable status in 2012 and is now run as a not-for-profit organisation [6] and governed by a formally appointed Board of Trustees. [7]

Publications

Bisschoff has researched filmmaking in sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, and East Africa. [3] She has referred to Hyenas (1992) by Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety as her favourite African film. [6]

In 2012, she contributed to Storytelling in World Cinemas, Volume 1. [8]

A series called "Recovering Lost African Film Classics" curated by Bisschoff and David Murphy at the AiM festival lead to the publication of Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema in 2017, which highlights indigenous African filmmaking. [9]

In 2016, Bisschoff co-wrote Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature, and Film with Stefanie Van de Peer. [10] It is the first book to look exclusively at art and trauma in African contexts. [11] In 2019, she published Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic. [3]

Bisschoff was a guest editor of the "decolonising film education" special issue of the Film Education Journal (2022), alongside Jyoti Mistry. [12]

In 2024, she co-edited Stretching the Archives: Decolonising Global Women’s Film Heritage.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lizelle Bisschoff". The Conversation. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  2. ↑ Martin, Michael T.; Kaboré, Gaston Jean-Marie (8 August 2023). African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges. Indiana University Press. p. 71. ISBN   978-0-253-06626-8.
  3. 1 2 3 Anagli, Mimi (6 May 2020). "Interview with Lizelle Bisschoff, Founder of the Africa in Motion Film Festival". agnès films. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  4. 1 2 Petty, Sheila (1 January 2014). Directory of World Cinema: Africa. Intellect Books. p. 52. ISBN   978-1-78320-392-5.
  5. 1 2 Peer, Stefanie Van de (31 October 2018). "Africa in Motion: Busting the Canon since 2006". MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Africa in Motion Case Study". Regional Screen Scotland. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Rediscovering Frantz Fanon at Scotland's Africa in Motion film festival". European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECSUS). 11 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  8. ↑ Khatib, Lina H. (2012). Storytelling in World Cinemas. Columbia University Press. pp. xi. ISBN   978-0-231-16204-3.
  9. ↑ "Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Eds. Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy. Oxford: Legenda (Moving Image, 5), 2014. 234 pp. £55.00/$99.00. ISBN 978–1–907975–51–6". Forum for Modern Language Studies. 51 (3): 351.1–351. 1 July 2015. doi:10.1093/fmls/cqv031. ISSN   0015-8518.
  10. ↑ Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gustafsson, Henrik (27 April 2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Taylor & Francis. p. 30. ISBN   978-1-136-45305-2.
  11. ↑ "Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature, and Film". African Arts. 49 (3): 92–93. 1 September 2016. doi:10.1162/AFAR_r_00306. ISSN   0001-9933.
  12. ↑ Mistry, Jyoti; Bisschoff, Lizelle (14 June 2022). "Editorial: decolonising film education". Film Education Journal. 5 (1). doi:10.14324/FEJ.05.1.01. ISSN   2515-7086.
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