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.
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.
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.
Marcel Łoziński is Poland’s best-known and most respected documentarians. Dina Iordanova offers an overview of his influences and works.
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.
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 …
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.
Veronika Kusumaryati highlights the art, culture, creativity, and voices of West Papuans in a list of advocacy, music, and exhibitions.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
A varied playlist made by the St Andrews Class Gift Committee surrounding the theme of ‘Giving Back’.
Clara Bradbury-Rance’s playlist offers a selection of films brought together by their use of queer / feminist recollections and citations.
Inspired by Maria San Filippo’s new book, her playlist explores the idea of sexual provocation and its different functions.
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.
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.
If you are watching The Chicago 7, released in October 2020 on Netflix, don’t stop there. Archivist Regina Longo offers a list of film and resources to give you further insight into the history and its mediation.
A playlist that offers a taster of Chinese independent cinema and some of the holdings of The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA).
The Mediated Voice, 2020-21 Centre For Screen Cultures, University Of St Andrews From Michel Chion’s The Voice in Cinema to more recent work by scholars such as Rey Chow, Pooja Rangan, and Jennifer …
Becky Bartlett offers a list of films that draw attention to gorilla characters and the the ‘golden age’ of ape suit cinema (the 1940s-1960s) in Hollywood.