In which Leshu Torchin, resident Borat expert and documentary scholar, recommends viewing to accompany Sacha Baron Cohen's latest foray into Borat and his special brand of documentary work. ...
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Andrew Robbins's playlist introduces a small collection of trans*-made short films that depict trans* people finding and rewriting their own histories, envisioning their own representation, and living full lives as activists and artists fighting for coalitional issues of justice....
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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....
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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) ...
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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. ...
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From Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University ) a reflection on motherhood and mediating functions that risk limiting our visions of kinship, especially under lockdown....
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In this list, Davina Quinlivan explores breath as a site of perception and feeling....
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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....
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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 and the political control they exert. Dale Hudson (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Patricia R. Zimmermann...
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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....
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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....
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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. ...
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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...
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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 R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College) explore how music and musicians have responded by not denying but...
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Restored Classics from Asia: A Frames Cinema Journal Special by Dina Iordanova. ...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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