ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 is a reflection on the specially-commissioned film Who is Europe? The film is a creative analogue to this book, which works through locations, observations, dissonances and contrasts. The dominant structural formal devices of the consecutive ‘acts’ and the split-screen format present the plurality, dialectics and friction between worlds, between imaginaries and subject positions. Above all, the film asks the critical question expressed in its title – a question that recurs throughout all of the contributions to this book – who is Europe? From here, other interrogatives automatically converge: what, where, when, how, why, whose? The chapter addresses these questions through a close commentary of the film’s acts, and a meditation on the poetics of filmmaking as a mode of critical practice able to provide different insights into the plurality and contested nature of Europe and its histories.
