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.
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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.
Themed Playlist: Complicating the Real- An Idiosyncratic Look at 21st Century Documentary
There’s so much more than Tiger King. Edinburgh International Film Festival documentary programmer Rohan Crickmar provides a list of idiosyncratic documentaries that will challenge common assumptions and broaden your imagination.
Themed Playlist: Women and Documentary- Naomi Kawase Online
Dina Iordanova offers an annotated and infomative playlist centred on documentarian Naomi Kawase.
Themed Playlist: Surviving Social Distance
Cassice Last offers a playlist of (mostly) contemporary films navigating the subject of human survival with themes of isolation, entrapment, companionship, technology, and the environment.
Themed Playlist: A Self-Isolator’s Silent Film Festival
Patrick Adamson’s themed playlist offers readers an opportunity to recreate the experience of attending a silent film festival (as much as possible anyway) in a time of lockdowns. Don’t forget to support Hippfest for when we get to go out again.
Themed Playlist: Embodying Capitalism and its Abuses
In ‘Embodying Capitalism’ Leshu Torchin offers a playlist of films that make visible the abstract and ostensibly neutral or objective systems of finance to show the workings of capitalism and their effects on our lived world.