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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A playlist about and for revolution. ...
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Tanya Horeck's playlist, ‘Better Worlds’ contains serialised TV shows whose utopic visions are deceptively political as they offer ways of imagining and feeling possibilities and alternatives....
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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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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....
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In this list, Anna Backman Rogers offers a personal and brief look into the cinematic offerings of women from Sweden...
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In this playlist, Dina Iordanova presents three docu-hybrid films from the 1930s Soviet Union. ...
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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...
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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....
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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 this reason, we at the Centre for Screen Cultures are producing themed playlists of film,...
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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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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: ...
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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...
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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....
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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! ...
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