The Annual Richard Burton Lecture – ‘Wales, Nigeria and Cinema:
The Berlin Years’

by Branwen Okpako
Filmmaker and Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, University of California, Davis.

Branwen Okpako will evaluate how the experience of making the film about her Welsh heritage, Searching for Taid (1998), defined her aesthetics and filmmaking style. The lecture will also weave in Branwen’s personal relationship with the work of Richard Burton with reference to the film Cleopatra. ‘In cinema’, notes Okpako, ‘the audience is both the pilot and the passenger’ and her lecture will explore the role of cinema in the struggle to define oneself legibly to a society for whom one is invisible.

Free and open to all

The Richard Burton Lecture is part of an annual series of prestigious events led by the Richard Burton Centre in collaboration with the Cultural Institute at Swansea University.