Themed Playlist: Filming Abortion
From Maria San Filippo, a tie-in to her recent Flow column “Maude & Me; Or, Responsibilities of a Feminist Media Critic,” this list features films that represent abortion in resonant, hopefully mind-changing ways.
Themed Playlist: Film, Water, and Politics in the American West
From Tyler Parks, a list of films that promote and explore water landscapes in the American West: How did they envision utopias and progress, and what can we learn from them about how we see development, the environment, and politics today?
Themed Playlist: Discovery and Beginnings
Ania Trzebiatowska has recently joined the University as the festival director of Sands – International Film Festival of St Andrews. She generously contributed a playlist on the theme of discovery and beginnings, featuring her favourite debuts of the past decade.
Themed Playlist: Out to market: Ports and pipelines
Mining and oil exploitation have been a focus of intense fascination for filmmakers and audiences, often mythologised as conquest over nature or visions of the technological sublime and the anthropocene. But what of the material realities of these operations? Maria Velez Serna provides films that render visible the abstracted operations of planetary mining.
Themed Playlist: Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment
In a time when we might be more attuned to matters of space and place than ever, and as so much of our movement is now about mediation and interaction with the digital, it is wonderful to have Dale Hudson’s and Patricia R. Zimmermann’s contribution: Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment.
Event: conversation between Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Cathy Lane
The Centre for Screen Cultures at University of St Andrews is delighted to be co-hosting a conversation between Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Cathy Lane at 2pm-3.30pm on Wednesday 17th November via zoom …
Themed Playlist: Queer Memory on Screen
From Anamarija Horvat (University of Nottingham), a playlist of films and television programmes that have contributed to the formation of queer memory, shaping how viewers imagine queer history and the past …
Themed Playlist: The Documentaries of Marcel Łoziński
Marcel Łoziński is Poland’s best-known and most respected documentarians. Dina Iordanova offers an overview of his influences and works.
Themed Playlist: Censors and Sensibility
From St Andrews Film Studies postgraduate researcher, Milo Farragher-Hanks, a playlist about censorship and moral panic, prompted by Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, UK, 2019), which is streaming on BFIPlayer.
World premiere of Nguyễn Trinh Thí’s How to Improve the World (2021)
In September, the Centre for Screen Cultures will partner with Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (10/9 -12/9) and will co-host the world premiere of Nguyễn Trinh Thí’s How to Improve …
Themed Playlist: Phone/Camera – Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling
Check out the Frames Cinema Journal 18 cross-over event with a themed playlist entitled Phone-Camera at the Intersection of Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling.
Themed Playlist: Voices of West Papua
Veronika Kusumaryati highlights the art, culture, creativity, and voices of West Papuans in a list of advocacy, music, and exhibitions.
Themed Playlist: The Female Detective on TV
To coincide with the publication of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture’s issue on the Female Detective on TV, this collaboratively-created playlist features several of the collection’s contributors offering their recommendations of TV shows featuring female detectives. Enjoy this list of things to watch and read.
Themed Playlist: Engaged Observation
Filmmaker and sound artist Mark Lyken provides a list of films that influenced the making of his recently released film, 1300 Shots. These films push beyond the observational mode in engaging, creative, and inventive ways.
Themed Playlist: Post-Romantic Comedy
To coincide with the publication of After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age, newly available from Wayne State University Press, the contributors recommend ‘post-romantic comedies’ that challenge the tired tropes of the neoliberal rom-com.
Themed Playlist: The Scene on Screen
From Dr Nessa Johnston (Edgehill University) Raving, clubbing and partying: the scene on screen After a whole year in which it’s been illegal to gather socially and clubs …
Themed Playlist: Visual Design: Ruth E Carter and Hannah Beachler
This playlist reflects on the Oscar-winning work of Hannah Beachler and Ruth E Carter for Black Panther (2018), and what this means for representation more widely.
Themed Playlist: Giving Back
A varied playlist made by the St Andrews Class Gift Committee surrounding the theme of ‘Giving Back’.
Themed Playlist: Queer Feminist Citations
Clara Bradbury-Rance’s playlist offers a selection of films brought together by their use of queer / feminist recollections and citations.
Themed Playlist: Screening Sexual Provocation
Inspired by Maria San Filippo’s new book, her playlist explores the idea of sexual provocation and its different functions.
Themed Playlist: The Mediated Voice
Built from the CSC roundtable on The Mediated Voice, a collective playlist that builds on that event to explore connections of voice to gender and race, of dubbing and performance, of authenticity and creativity.
Themed Playlist: A World Inside a Room
This playlist is inspired by the 60 Hour Film Blitz’s 2021 theme: “A world inside a room.” Each team will create a short film using only one room of their homes, and this playlist therefore features films all predominantly shot in a single location.