The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) has launched a three-way international collaboration with the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) and the Centre for Screen Cultures Playlist initiative at the University of St. Andrews Scotland to showcase playlists about online media projects about COVID-19....
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Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa offers a partial survey of the representation of zoonotic diseases on film-- a stable of both narrative and science cinema. How have animals been used to personify disease and communicate a host of political as well as medical anxieties? ...
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Mike Wyeld (University of Hertfordshire) suggests a list of digital works rethinking how we use online video. In a time filled with public and private trauma and slow violence we might find solace in films designed to bring calm through easily achieved goals. Mike brings...
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William Brown and David H. Fleming present A Chthululist As the proverb goes: try saying that with false teeth! Shamelessly to tie in with the release of our new book, The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-squid-cinema-from-hell.html), and also at the generous invitation...
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From Suzanne Enzerink (Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut) comes a timely and topical playlist: Corrupted Visions, Interrupted Dreams When I was preparing to move to Beirut in the spring of 2019, I consumed all literature and cinema I...
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A nostalgic playlist about Venice comprising lesser known and expected films. Not the usual Venice playlist. ...
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From Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University ) a reflection on motherhood and mediating functions that risk limiting our visions of kinship, especially under lockdown....
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In this list, Davina Quinlivan explores breath as a site of perception and feeling....
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In this list, Robert Munro provides a range of Scottish films that explore childhood and child-parent relationships in ways that are both personal and allegorical....
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Mainstream media have the power to dictate the terms of engagement through their near ubiquity and capacity to frame the issues. Satire is a crucial tool in countering these narratives and the political control they exert. Dale Hudson (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Patricia R. Zimmermann...
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Hannah Mueller (Bowling Green State University) offers a list of films that show poverty as a structural, intersectional issue in contrast to the typical portraits of invidualised suffering overcome by even more individual action....
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Jeff Schreible (KCL),a Philadelphian in London, reflects on representations of Black lives in this diverse city-- lives often erased from mainstream representations of the city, but clearly visible and vibrant in the list he offers....
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With speculative fiction feeling increasingly less speculative and more predictive, science fiction offers us a way to think about our present. In this playlist, Hannah Mueller presents some transcultural dystopia visions and food for thought. ...
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Mining and oil exploitation have been a focus of intense fascination for filmmakers and audiences, often mythologised as conquest over nature or visions of the technological sublime and the anthropocene. But what of the material realities of these operations? Maria Velez Serna provides films that...
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The pandemic has affected our sensory contact with the world-- not only touch, but all the elements of a live, in person performance. Dale Hudson (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Patricia R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College) explore how music and musicians have responded by not denying but...
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Restored Classics from Asia: A Frames Cinema Journal Special by Dina Iordanova. ...
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Stuntworkers are hypervisible as spectacle but too often invisible as laborers. In this playlist, Lauren Steimer directs our attention to their work and calls attention to the need to see this labour and recognise it in the industry and beyond....
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The global pandemic of Covid-19 has brought with it a pandemic of viral misinformation, or information from the top down. How can media, and in particular, the domestic and socially distanced media, combat this spread? From Dale Hudson (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Patricia R. Zimmermann...
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Kristen Fuhs (Woodbury University) provides a list of documentaries that one can watch to gain a better understanding of the intersection of race, policing, and miscarriages of justice in the U.S....
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