More, this genre considers the relationship of the transnational film-makers to their subjects to be a relationship that is filtered through narratives and iconographies of memory, desire, loss, longing and nostalgia. Memories are fallible, playful, and evasive, and the narratives and iconographies that they produce – in whatever type of film – are palimpsestical, inscribing ruptures, fantasies, and embellishments as well as ellipses, erosions and repressions.
–Hamid Naficy, “Phobic space and liminal panics: Independent transnational film genre”,
in Rob Wilson & Wimal Dissanayake, eds, Global/Local: Cultural production and the transnational imaginary
Lyrical, sensual… I want to write like this!