Themed Playlist: Black Lives in Philadelphia

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.

Themed Playlist: Out to market: Ports and pipelines

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 render visible the abstracted operations of planetary mining.

Themed Playlist: Seeing Stuntwork

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.

Themed Playlist: First Wave Covid-19 Playlist: Information

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 (Ithaca College) a reflection and list.

Themed Playlist: Traces of Violence

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 violence.

Themed Playlist: Better Worlds

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.