Miranda Pennell on Strange Object

How do archival photographs taken from aerial bombers reveal a way of looking that amounts to a self-portrait of the colonizer? In this episode, the comrades interview filmmaker and scholar Miranda Pennell about her new film Strange Object. We discuss the Dervish resistance in British Somaliland, tropes of the colonial encounter and colonial warfare, as well as her personal approach the ambiguity of photographs. 

Strange Object will be available for streaming via Doc Alliance from July 12th onwards: https://dafilms.com/film.