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, …
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 …
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, …
Faith Encounters: Missionary Visions in Ecuadorian Film History
Maria Fernanda Miño’s playlist traces cinematic representations of Christian missionaries in Ecuadorian film history.
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 …
Themed Playlist: The New Politics of Food Television
Michelle Phillipov, The University of Adelaide After dominating broadcast and cable television schedules for much of the 2000s, food TV has found a range of new lives in non-linear, digital …
Film Screening: Oqlanmagan
The Centre for Screen Cultures, the Centre for Art and Politics, and the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence collaborated on a screening of the documentary …
Eco: A Feminist Disaster
Emma Piper-Burket, University of Colorado Boulder “By the beginning of the 1970s, man had brought the destruction of his environment close to the point of no return. Of course, there …
Film Screening: The Drum
In collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Centre for Screen Cultures organised a special screening of the 1938 film The Drum in black-and-white on 16mm film. The screening accompanied the current exhibition ‘Our …
Film Symbiosis: Embodied Spectators and Nonhuman Animals
Dara Waldron, Technological University of the Shannon (Midwest) This playlist is influenced by research undertaken for a journal article titled ‘Film Symbiosis: Embodied spectatorship and sensory (auto)ethnography in Lucien Castaing-Taylor …