Memories of migration: tracing the past through movement in film

Fragile balance: Imaginary Europes, transcultural aesthetics and discourses of European identity in Pawel Pawlikowski’sLast Resortand Steven Spielberg’sWar Horse

“…This may also explain why imagined Europes manifest in different sizes, images, objects and languages, and why these constructs constantly change, shift and multiply. Interested in understanding the reciprocal relationship between past events, memory work and European self-perception, Balibar has pointed to the impact of European imperialism and colonialism not only on the former colonies, but also on the European colonialists themselves (see also Helff 2014). He writes: only recently, and with considerable difficulties, have we become conscious of the fact that "barbarity" indeed circulated for centuries between the dominant center and the dominated periphery.…”