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Bentley Brown
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ABOUT
Bentley Brown is a filmmaker and PhD candidate in Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Working frequently in Arabic and French on subjects of third-culture identity and belonging, his films include "Revolution From Afar" (MESA 2020) and "Oustaz" (Berlinale 2016).
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Sahara
Specialties
Identity Formation
Arts Education
Language Acquisition
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (fluent)
Urdu (elementary)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
MA | 2015 | Communication, Culture, and Technology | Georgetown University
BA | 2009 | International Studies | Emory University
Abstracts
Arabic Type in the Digital Age: Have Dialects Paved the Way for Change? Do you consider yourselves ‘Arab’? Hybridized identities and questions of belonging in ‘Revolution From Afar’