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.
Resources
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.
Streaming Video Resources for Times of Social Distancing
Looking for things to watch that aren’t part of the usual suspects? Check out (and contribute) to this list of global and hard to find films available via streaming.
Archiving the St Andrews Green Film Festival
In 2018-2019, St Andrews student Sasha Potter ’19, with the support of the Undergraduate Research Assistant Scheme, conducted a study of the St Andrews Green Film Festival. Here is her report.
Common Sexism in Charisma on Command’s video about Brie Larson
Charisma on Command, an organisation of two young men dedicated to cultivating one’s charisma, extrovertedness, and relationships recently released a video listicle entitled ‘5 Common Habits That Make People Instantly Dislike You’.