Name: Mette Hjort
Title: Prof.
Position: Chair Professor
Organization: Lingnan University
Brief profile:
- Interested in questions of scale as they relate to issues of sustainability
- Much of her research has focused on the cinema of small nations, with a special emphasis on practitioners’ agency, creativity under constraint, artistic projects as alternatives to cultural policy, gift culture, and milieu-building initiatives involving transnational South/South and North/South partnerships based on shared values and aspirations.
- Her current projects focus on cinema-based human rights work, environmental aesthetics and ethics, and transnational film training within a human rights framework.