Themed Playlist: History Painting as Cinema
In this list, writer and filmmaker Gillian McIver reflects on the painterliness of cinema– something that goes beyond simply ‘looking like’ a painting:
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Themed Playlist: An Introduction to the Radical Film Network
Clive Myer of Eclectic Films Ltd has worked with the Radical Film Network to produce a playlist to get you started on the remarkable collection of activist and experimental films produced by members of the RFN.
Themed Playlist: Seven Films by Women from Sweden
In this list, Anna Backman Rogers offers a personal and brief look into the cinematic offerings of women from Sweden
Themed Playlist: Hybrid Genre Classics of the Soviet Empire- 1930s
In this playlist, Dina Iordanova presents three docu-hybrid films from the 1930s Soviet Union.
Themed Playlist: Our Virtual Selves
The COVID-19 pandemic will be digitized. The shifts from in-person to screen-based interactions has been all encompassing and our virtual selves have become more present than ever. In this list, Jennifer O’Meara offers up film and video that have been showing us versions of the virtual self.
Themed Playlist: This is Not a Playlist
In which William Brown points out that for all the play, there is also work in a list, and offers up a list of films that also blend work and home space, sometimes also making the viewer work for their play.
THEMED PLAYLIST: RAINBOW OF FILM COLOUR
About the lists: Calls to socially distance and self-isolate are driving people to look for things to watch. But the sheer amount of options out there can be overwhelming. For …
Themed Playlist: Mapping Time
Media think with and through us, presenting us with images, memories, and experiences that may challenge our everyday perception. This list from Eileen Rositzka is for those who like putting things into perspective.
Themed Playlist: Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment
In a time when we might be more attuned to matters of space and place than ever, and as so much of our movement is now about mediation and interaction with the digital, it is wonderful to have Dale Hudson’s and Patricia R. Zimmermann’s contribution: Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment.
Themed Playlist: What to Watch Instead of Tiger King
Driven to distraction not only by the lockdown, but also by the peculiar success of Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness (Eric V. Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, 2020), Leshu Torchin offers up an anti-playlist for anyone interested in issues and topics raised by this Netflix phenomenon.
Themed Playlist: Artavazd Peleshyan’s Films- Ethics, Poetics, Philosophy
Dina Iordanova has been excavating the Internet and navigating its abundance to share hidden yet available gems with her friends and colleagues. In this list, she shares the work of Artavazd Peleshyan.
Themed Playlist: Hungarian Cinema- A Taster in 12+ 1 (mostly) Contemporary Films
Hungarian cinema often gets associated with one name only – Béla Tarr, the master of slow cinema – yet there is a lot more to be explored. Lucy Szemetova offers a taster plus a link to an online film premiere!
Themed Playlist: An (Abridged) History of Hungarian Cinema
Phil Mann provides a brief history of Hungarian Cinema with a tour through the Hungarian National Film Institute Archives.
Themed Playlist: The Bottle Episode
At a time when we’re pretty much living our own ‘Bottle Episode’, Zoe Shacklock offers a list of some of the most notable examples of this particular genre.
Themed Playlist: Women-Made Indigenous Cinema from Canada
Film blogger, cinephile, film critic and educator, Girish Shambu, provides a list of 10 film/media works made by Indigenous women from Canada– all available to watch for free on the NFB website.
Themed Playlist: Films from the Cultures of Resistance Network
In anticipation of their online premiere of Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse (Iara Lee, 2020), Cultures of Resistance Films shares some selections from their documentary film offerings which will be streaming until 26th April..
Themed Playlist: On Touch and Materiality
As social distancing requires we withdraw from touch, Lucy Donaldson provides a list of films that call attention to materiality, to touch and to bodily contact.
Themed Playlist: The Female Gaze
Leshu Torchin offers a selection of films embodying or representing the female gaze. What is that, you ask? These films could answer that question, which even when answered, requires more.
Themed Playlist: An Ecuadorian Cinema Taster
María Fernanda Miño offers up a taster of Ecuadorian cinema with twelve films representing a range of genres and perspectives.
Themed Playlist: Disease in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Films about illness and disability can tell us so much more; in his playlist, Kai Gao explains how they can tell us as much about China—politics and social life— as they do about health.