Keynote: Jemma Desai

In her keynote address, Jemma Desai will question the role of integrity in the documentary field. James Baldwin understood the integrity of artists as an analogue for the integrity of being human. During a time of live streamed genocide, institutional indifference and collective grief, to what extent can we say that formalized infrastructures for the giving and receiving of images are life-affirming—that they are integral to life? How (and where) do we practice dignity, solidarity and resolve in systems that excel in transforming such political desires into content while remaining resilient against the emancipatory transformation they invite?