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Mickey Semera (he/him) is an independent filmmaker and theorist. He received his MA in Cinema and Media Studies from The University of British Columbia. His MA research examined Tigrayan and Palestinian archives and archival films to explore the relationship between ‘the archive’, settler colonialism, ethnonationalism, antiblackness, and slavery. He hopes to continue this work in his doctoral research, with an eye toward analyzing Eritrean and Ethiopian cinema through the lens of black critical theory.
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