“I enjoy watching, teaching, making, and programming documentary films that bring a sensitive understanding to societal and political questions. I think of those issues that may already have been widely covered by the media or the social sciences and humanities, but that still elude us because no one has yet addressed our senses to evoke them. I like films that think through and interrogate their own forms, as well as those that trust their viewers and their intelligence. I like works that respect their protagonists and those that make us feel less stupid or powerless because they have managed to find accuracy in a profoundly unjust world.”

Emanuel Licha was first a geographer—and has become even more so since becoming a visual artist and documentary filmmaker. His work in film and film installations explores the roles of certain spatial objects in the representation and understanding of geopolitical events, leading him to consider urban landscape objects as social, historical, and political factors. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal / Tiohtià:ke, where he teaches documentary practices and research-creation methods.