Themed Playlist: A Chthululist
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 …
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Themed Playlist: Corrupted Visions, Interrupted Dreams
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 …
Themed Playlist: Venice
A nostalgic playlist about Venice comprising lesser known and expected films. Not the usual Venice playlist.
Themed Playlist: Mediating Motherhood
From Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University ) a reflection on motherhood and mediating functions that risk limiting our visions of kinship, especially under lockdown.
Themed Playlist: Lungs and Breath, Air and Matter
In this list, Davina Quinlivan explores breath as a site of perception and feeling.
Themed Playlist: Childhoods in Scottish Cinema
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.
Themed Playlist: First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Satire
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 …
Themed Playlist: Precarious Lives: The Intersectionality of Poverty
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.
Themed Playlist: Black Lives in Philadelphia
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.
Themed Playlist: The End of The World: Apocalypse from the Margins
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.
Themed Playlist: Out to market: Ports and pipelines
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 render visible the abstracted operations of planetary mining.
Themed Playlist: First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Music
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 …
Themed Playlist: Restored Classics from Asia
Restored Classics from Asia: A Frames Cinema Journal Special by Dina Iordanova.
Themed Playlist: Seeing Stuntwork
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.
Themed Playlist: First Wave Covid-19 Playlist: Information
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 (Ithaca College) a reflection and list.
Themed Playlist: Race and Policing in the U.S. (Documentaries)
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.
Themed Playlist: Traces of Violence
What does it mean to live with violence? This is not violence as exceptional event, but violence as an ongoing presence felt across place, community, and generations? These films explore persistent legacies of violence, demanding a reframing the perspective that the demonstrations are the problematic violence.
Themed Playlist: Better Worlds
Tanya Horeck’s playlist, ‘Better Worlds’ contains serialised TV shows whose utopic visions are deceptively political as they offer ways of imagining and feeling possibilities and alternatives.