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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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.
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)
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.
International Collaboration with Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
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.
Themed Playlist: Filmed Zoonosis- A History of Onscreen Animal Vectors
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?
Themed Playlist: Low Stakes TV; Cleaning Drains, Washing Cars and Long Walks
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 …
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 …
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 …