I've written an article on the films of the young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet at ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social . Ikram is in prison in China; his four brilliant films explore inhabiting Uyghur identity within China in complex and powerful ways. 1/
The Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet Ikram is behind bars on political charges. Shelly Kraicer reviews his four short films, and explores what they tell us about how “ethnic minority” artists can—and cannot—work inside China's system:
Balancing What Can Be Said with What Can Only Be Implied | ChinaFile
The young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet is now in a Chinese prison for “actively participating in terrorist activities.” He was likely targeted because he had studied in Turkey between 2010 and 2016. It is always difficult for what China calls “ethnic minority” (i.e. non-Han Chinese) filmmakers to make the films they want to make inside China, where review by the state Film