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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick
The Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art, partnered with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 to present Everyone I Know is Sick, a programme of …
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, …
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.
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 …
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 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 …
AMPHOTERIC POEMS – THE ARCHITECTURAL AND ANARCHIST FILMS OF THE COLLECTIVE MAYAKOV+SKY PLATFORM
The anarchist collective Mayakov+sky Platform’s (MA.P) main project, since its establishment in 2011, has been the construction of a new methodology in philosophy, economics and poetics called Amphoterics through a …
A Themed Playlist from South African Cybermag herri
Curated by herri editor and South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. These ten short film works give a tiny glimpse into the incredibly rich world of contemporary experimental film as curated …
Themed Playlist: Experimental Radical Films from the Radical Film Network
Clive Myer and Mike Dunford Clive Myer and Mike Dunford were considering the space and place of experimental film in today’s so-called “anything goes” multi-platform, media faced society. They were …
Accent as Expertise, Perception, and Desire: A Playlist to Accompany Thinking with an Accent
The editors of Thinking with an Accent have compiled a media playlist to accompany their Open Access collection, available to read for free online or in a variety of downloadable formats. They have chosen a range of media texts, spanning the realms of installation and video art, theater, fiction and documentary film, and music. Their goal, to borrow a phrase from pioneering raciolinguist John Baugh’s foreword to our volume, has been to channel the “methodological liberation that is on display throughout this book,” and to do so in a way that introduces readers to the work of each of our contributors.
‘Sound, the ultimate multi-tool’ – an online screening of Last Things (2023) + conversation with filmmaker and artist Deborah Stratman and curator Ilinca Vânău
We are thrilled to welcome you to the final event in our three year focus on sound and the moving image with a screening of another incredible (and appropriately titled) …
Shared Resources – A conversation with Jordan Lord and Pooja Rangan
4pm (BST), 25th April: Shared Resources – a conversation with Jordan Lord and Pooja Rangan (online) Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-resources-a-conversation-with-jordan-lord-and-pooja-rangan-tickets-522393241247 In advance of this event we will screen Jordan …