Screening of General Cartoon (Tha Du, 1963) + Q&A with Okkar Maung
Please join us for a special screening of the recently restored Burmese film General Cartoon (Tha Du, 1963) followed by Q&A with Director of Save Myanmar Film, Okkar Maung (on …
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Warning: Contains Flashing Images! Strobe on Film
James Lawrence Slattery. Strobe is characterised as rapid, bright flashing lights. When viewed on screen or experienced in person, this effect often makes actions appear as if they’re happening in …
Themed Playlist: The New Politics of Food Television
Michelle Phillipov, The University of Adelaide After dominating broadcast and cable television schedules for much of the 2000s, food TV has found a range of new lives in non-linear, digital …
Eco: A Feminist Disaster
Emma Piper-Burket, University of Colorado Boulder “By the beginning of the 1970s, man had brought the destruction of his environment close to the point of no return. Of course, there …
Themed Playlist: Sensing the Archive- A Frames Cinema Journal Special
This playlist is a companion piece to the Frames Cinema Journal Issue 19 which explores the sensory properties of archives, archival instabilities and the digital turn. Here is some recommended viewing for the readings and reflections of the issue.
Themed Playlist: Post-Romantic Comedy
To coincide with the publication of After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age, newly available from Wayne State University Press, the contributors recommend ‘post-romantic comedies’ that challenge the tired tropes of the neoliberal rom-com.
Themed Playlist: Seven Films by Women from Sweden
In this list, Anna Backman Rogers offers a personal and brief look into the cinematic offerings of women from Sweden
Themed Playlist: Hybrid Genre Classics of the Soviet Empire- 1930s
In this playlist, Dina Iordanova presents three docu-hybrid films from the 1930s Soviet Union.
Themed Playlist: This is Not a Playlist
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.
THEMED PLAYLIST: RAINBOW OF FILM COLOUR
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 …
Themed Playlist: Mapping Time
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.
Themed Playlist: Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment
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: Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment.
Themed Playlist: What to Watch Instead of Tiger King
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 phenomenon.
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.
The Act of Signifyin(g): Reflections on Dolemite is My Name
In which Leshu Torchin thinks aloud about Henry Gates Jr’s Signifyin(g), Marlon Riggs’s Black Macho, Blaxploitation, and Dolemite is My Name.