Documentary Filmmaking in the Global South: The Work of Maureen Gosling Two Public Events with Maureen Gosling at the University of Washington

Dreams and Fires - Experiences in

Documentary Filmmaking in Latin America

Thursday Feb. 16, 2017

4:30- 6pm Thomson Hall 101 Gosling will discuss her work in Latin America and screen clips from two award-winning documentaries: Burden of Dreams, a view into the controversial filming of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo and the reactions of Aguaruna and other Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon; and Blossoms of Fire, a tribute to the Isthmus Zapotec People of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Bamako Chic: A Quest for Alternative Visions of Africa Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 10-11:30 am Thomson Hall 317 Gosling will share a 15 minute trailer of a new film still in production. A collaboration with anthropologist Maxine Downs, Bamako Chic examines the daily lives of Malian cloth dyers and the power of Malian women's artistry and entrepreneurial skills.

MAUREEN GOSLING Maureen Gosling, a filmmaker for more than 40 years, has worked as a director, producer, editor, sound recordist and distributor. Gosling produced and directed, with Chris Simon, the feature documentary, THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC!, on the life of American roots music record producer, Chris Strachwitz. Gosling directed, produced and edited BLOSSOMS OF FIRE (2000), feature-length, on the Zapotecs of Oaxaca, Mexico. Gosling is best known for her 20-year collaboration, as co-filmmaker, editor and sound recordist, with the late director Les Blank on more than two-dozen documentaries. Their best-known film is the British Academy Award winning “making of” classic, BURDEN OF DREAMS, on Werner Herzog’s filming of FITZCARRALDO in the Peruvian Amazon. Gosling is also a sought- after editor. Her current projects as editor include: A DANGEROUS IDEA, directed by Stephanie Welch; THE LONG SHADOW, directed by Frances Causey. She is also co-filmmaker with Maxine Downs on BAMAKO CHIC: THREADS OF POWER, COLOR AND CULTURE.

Sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, and Comparative History of Ideas.