Cinematic Ecosystems: Book Launch
The Department of Film Studies and the Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews are delighted to host an online book launch for a new collection on eco-cinema. …
Book Launch: Celebrating and Studying Silent Film
We’re delighted to announce the first Centre for Screen Cultures event of 2026: a book launch for two new monographs, taking place at The Byre Theatre in St Andrews on …
ONWARD! Flaherty Film Seminar Gatherings
We are delighted to share that the Department of Film Studies and the Centre for Screen Cultures is collaborating with LUX Scotland and The Flaherty Seminar this semester and is a co-organiser …
The Story of British Propaganda Film
Please join us ar 3pm on 15 October 2025, when Dr Scott Anthony will present a talk in School V: “‘It is like breathing oxygen; one knows it is there, …
Screening of General Cartoon (Tha Du, 1963) + Q&A with Okkar Maung
Please join us for a special screening of the recently restored Burmese film General Cartoon (Tha Du, 1963) followed by Q&A with Director of Save Myanmar Film, Okkar Maung (on …
Environmental struggles in the Andean-Amazonian socio-ecological system
On 16 October, please join us in School 1, St Salvator’s Quad, for an afternoon programme of talks and a screening. Wildfires devour the Amazon. Devastating droughts affect Andean populations, …
Forthcoming Event: Gleaners, Devils and Pits: Bolivian Mining Community Films
The Centre for Screen Cultures is delighted to announce the first in-person event of our calendar for the new academic year! Please join us in School V, 4.00pm-5.30pm, on Wednesday …
Film Screening: Tiempo de Lluvia
On 26 October, the Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the St Andrews Centre for Amerindian, Latin American, and Carribean Studies (CAS), hosted a screening of Tiempo de Lluvia, …
Film Festival Feeling: A Multimedia Compendium of Film Festival Representations
Diana Mantese puts together a far-reaching playlist based on multimedia representations of film festivals.
Frames of Resistance: 7 Palestinian Short Films
Enes Akdağ puts together a list of Palestinian auteur directors whose short films powerfully articulate the lived experience of being Palestinian within aesthetic and political configurations of resistance.
LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST FILMS (20th CENTURY)
Put together by members of RAMA (Red de Investigación del Audiovisual hecho por Mujeres en América Latina) and drawing from the collection ‘Guerrilla Archiving: Documents for a Feminist History of Latin American Cinemas’ (Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 20.3), this list offers a cluster of 15 key examples of feminist Latin American filmmaking of the 20th century.
Faith Encounters: Missionary Visions in Ecuadorian Film History
Maria Fernanda Miño’s playlist traces cinematic representations of Christian missionaries in Ecuadorian film history.
In The Labyrinth Of The Mouth: guest talk by Sandro Weilenmann
The Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Art, is delighted to welcome Dr Sandro Weilenmann to the University of St Andrews. Sandro will deliver a …
We Come In Peace, They Said: Film Screening and Q&A with Jyoti Mistry
The Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Art, is delighted to welcome to St Andrews the artist and filmmaker Jyoti Mistry. Join us for a …
Antuca: film screening and Q&A with Maria Barea
Join us for a screening of the Peruvian film Antuca, followed by a question and answer (Q&A) session with the film’s director, Maria Barea. The event will take place from 5pm …
Slavery on Screen from Havana to Hollywood: A Themed Playlist
Phillip Kaisary showcases five cinematic feature-length films produced in Havana in the 1970s that challenge the longstanding tradition of eliding Black resistance to slavery.
Women and Global Documentary
A themed playlist to accompany the upcoming publication of Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century (2025), edited by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren.
Kartemquin Films, a Themed Playlist
Patricia Aufderheide, American University The U.S. documentary production house Kartemquin Films, launched in 1966 and still going strong, has an amazing, improbable history. This pioneering institution has made films that …
Warning: Contains Flashing Images! Strobe on Film
James Lawrence Slattery. Strobe is characterised as rapid, bright flashing lights. When viewed on screen or experienced in person, this effect often makes actions appear as if they’re happening in …
Back to School: Trans and Queer Youth Coming-of-Age Around the World
A playlist drawn from and inspired by the Transgender Media Portal composed by its curator, Aliisa Qureshi.
Workshop: ‘Next, Click: Finding a Future for Filmstrips’
On 24 May 2024, the University of St Andrews hosted a workshop that brought together an international array of contributors, with the aim of interrogating the realm of filmstrips. The …