"Return" is a central notion for thinking about the diasporic condition (W. Safran). Yala Kisukidi will examine the ambivalences of this notion, drawing specifically on twentieth-century African and Black diasporic imaginaries and on contemporary European migration policies.

Jessica Ruffin will unpack the broad function of religious horror, the film’s engagement with filicide taboos and class inheritance, as well as its unique metaphysics of evil, from women and dogs to the photographic image.