Faith Encounters: Missionary Visions in Ecuadorian Film History
Maria Fernanda Miño’s playlist traces cinematic representations of Christian missionaries in Ecuadorian film history.
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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.
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.
Themed Playlist: Blackstar Theory- Drama, Dream, and David Bowie
Leah Kardos (Kingston University) shares a playlist that illuminates the intertextuality of David Bowie’s work and informs his last three projects, The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015), and the album Blackstar (2016).
Themed Playlist: Mothers of Invention
To celebrate and coincide with the publication of the (fantastic!) Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor, Eds Corinn Columpar and So Mayer deliver a playlist that expands on the book, which examines parenting both a theme and a practice in film and media cultures, where mothering can be seen as a form of radical caring labour.
Themed Playlist: Ukrainian Films
Inspired by community interest, the FLEFF team decided to develop a film list that would include both historical and contemporary films from Ukraine, a country with a long history of cinema. This is a selection of ten, all available through streaming services.
Themed Playlist: Sensing the Archive- A Frames Cinema Journal Special
This playlist is a companion piece to the Frames Cinema Journal Issue 19 which explores the sensory properties of archives, archival instabilities and the digital turn. Here is some recommended viewing for the readings and reflections of the issue.
Themed Playlist: Seeking Sanctuary
On 7th March, the University of St Andrews will commemorate its second anniversary of its University of Sanctuary status. This is a playlist on the theme of migration and seeking sanctuary.
Themed Playlist: Filming Abortion
From Maria San Filippo, a tie-in to her recent Flow column “Maude & Me; Or, Responsibilities of a Feminist Media Critic,” this list features films that represent abortion in resonant, hopefully mind-changing ways.
Themed Playlist: Film, Water, and Politics in the American West
From Tyler Parks, a list of films that promote and explore water landscapes in the American West: How did they envision utopias and progress, and what can we learn from them about how we see development, the environment, and politics today?