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Jimena Aguilar is the Head of the MA Digital Narratives at the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln, and is the co-founder and director of Alharaca, a Salvadorean feminist news media organisation that combines journalism, arts, and new technologies to strengthen equality, diversity, and democracy in Central America. Her research interests, from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, include the topics of memory, collective creation, and feminist collective media practices. She leads seminars on the topics for masters-level students and was part of the research group “Diversity in Film and Media” for a recent Erasmus-funded project. Her most recent project is a geolocated-audio testimonial documentary about the massacre that happened in the historical center of San Salvador during the funeral of Archbishop Óscar Romero, whose murder is seen as the beginning of the civil war in El Salvador.

Ein Portrait von Jimena Aguilar.

Events

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LVR LandesMuseum

// Workshop II

Festival ticket required

Digital narratives as inspiration for multi-perspective journalism

With Laurien Michiels, Jimena Aguilar and Daniel Bangura

In this panel, three digital storytellers pull the audience into their respective creative stories: an augmented reality book on the topic of echo chambers, an audio walk collective memory project and an interactive web documentary about urban space. What unites them all: their social relevance, narrative strength and multi perspective character that seek to create dialogues with their audiences. Are digital narratives particularly apt at stifling polarization and unleashing innovation?