Themed Playlist: Giving Back
A varied playlist made by the St Andrews Class Gift Committee surrounding the theme of 'Giving Back'....
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Thursday April 8, 2021
Playlist Initiative
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. ...
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Thursday March 25, 2021
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. ...
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Thursday March 18, 2021
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....
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Friday March 12, 2021
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....
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Friday February 26, 2021
Themed Playlist: Beyond Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7
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. ...
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Friday February 19, 2021
Themed Playlist: Phone/Camera – Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling
This playlist offers inspiration for the Frames Cinema Journal CFP, giving a short primer on the issues, methods and implications of camera-phone/ phone-camera technology for film and screen media today....
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Thursday February 11, 2021
Themed Playlist: Chinese Independent Cinema
A playlist that offers a taster of Chinese independent cinema and some of the holdings of The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA). ...
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Thursday February 4, 2021
Themed Playlist: Acting the Ape: Hollywood Gorilla Men
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. ...
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Thursday December 10, 2020
Themed Playlist: Dreaming of a Cult Christmas
What better for the end of a weird year but the list of weird Christmas films from Becky Bartlett? ...
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Thursday December 10, 2020
Themed Playlist: Black Queer Youth
In this list, LEUNG Wing-Fai highlights the narratives that feature queer black youth as protagonists....
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Thursday November 26, 2020
Themed Playlist: Radical Film Network Returns
In May 2020, Clive Myer provided a playlist introducing us to the work of the Radical Film Network. He returns now with a follow up list to let us know that there are now over 150 films available, free of charge, to students, researchers, the...
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Thursday November 26, 2020
Themed Playlist: Queer Cinema from Mainland China
A wonderful playlist of films produced and/or circulated in China that centre on queer people’s lives, or films in which queer people’s stories are central to the film narrative, regardless of the gender and sexual identities of the filmmakers and the target audience....
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Thursday November 19, 2020
Themed Playlist: She’s Come Undone: Apocalypses, Big and Small
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson offers a list of apocalypses written on and through the bodies of girls and women. ...
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Thursday October 29, 2020
Themed Playlist: What to Watch to Prepare for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
In which Leshu Torchin, resident Borat expert and documentary scholar, recommends viewing to accompany Sacha Baron Cohen's latest foray into Borat and his special brand of documentary work. ...
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Thursday October 22, 2020
Themed Playlist: Behind the Camera and Onscreen: Trans* Lives Reimagined
Andrew Robbins's playlist introduces a small collection of trans*-made short films that depict trans* people finding and rewriting their own histories, envisioning their own representation, and living full lives as activists and artists fighting for coalitional issues of justice....
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Friday October 16, 2020
Themed Playlist: Multimedia Journalism and COVID-19
Allison Frisch offers a list of multimedia journalism, which allows for an expansive and people-centred perspective on living with the pandemic. ...
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Friday October 16, 2020
Themed Playlist: Family Affairs
In honour of World Mental Health Day (10 October), Richard Warden (Middlefish Films) offers a list of documentaries that take a personal, intimate approach to mental heath issues....
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Tuesday October 6, 2020
News: The Urgency of Participatory Small Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Playlist contributors and advisory board members Patricia Zimmerman and Dale Hudson have published a reflection on their playlists and "The Urgency of Participatory Small Media during the Covid-19 Pandemic" at the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) ...
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Monday October 5, 2020
Themed Playlist: Vivas y furiosas (alive and furious): Women in Latin American Horror
Valeria Villegas Lindvall offers a list that highlights the creativity of Latin American genre filmmaking through a selection of horror films by women. These are provocative works designed to get your blood pumping and mind reeling. ...
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Thursday October 1, 2020