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.
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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.