Themed Playlist: Visual Design: Ruth E Carter and Hannah Beachler
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.
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).
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.
What better for the end of a weird year but the list of weird Christmas films from Becky Bartlett?
In this list, LEUNG Wing-Fai highlights the narratives that feature queer black youth as protagonists.
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 academic community and the public at large on the Radical Film Network website.
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.
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson offers a list of apocalypses written on and through the bodies of girls and women.
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.
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.
Allison Frisch offers a list of multimedia journalism, which allows for an expansive and people-centred perspective on living with the pandemic.
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.
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)
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.