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 11 September 2024 for an exciting talk and screening.
One of the most remarkable experiments in radical film pedagogy and media proletarianisation in Latin America cinema is the Miner’s Film Workshop, held in Bolivia in 1983. The resulting thirteen films – that were thought lost for decades – have recently been found in Paris, together with the entire administrative archive of the workshop. An international research team is currently working on preserving these primary sources and developing a digital restitution project in Bolivia. This event will explore the historical role of women in the workshop and delve into problematic issues related to the preservation and archival activation process in the present. Moreover, for the first time in the UK, we will have the opportunity to watch two of the shorts.
We are delighted to welcome to St Andrews Miguel Errazu of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, who will discuss the Bolivian mining community films, in conversation with Dr Isabel Segui of the Department of Film Studies.
This event is jointly organised by the Centre for Screen Cultures (CSC), the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) and the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS).
A drinks reception will follow the event, sponsored by CSC.