Cinematic Ecosystems: Book Launch
The Department of Film Studies and the Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews are delighted to host an online book launch for a new collection on eco-cinema. …
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Film Festival Feeling: A Multimedia Compendium of Film Festival Representations
Diana Mantese puts together a far-reaching playlist based on multimedia representations of film festivals.
Frames of Resistance: 7 Palestinian Short Films
Enes Akdağ puts together a list of Palestinian auteur directors whose short films powerfully articulate the lived experience of being Palestinian within aesthetic and political configurations of resistance.
Book Launch: Celebrating and Studying Silent Film
We’re delighted to announce the first Centre for Screen Cultures event of 2026: a book launch for two new monographs, taking place at The Byre Theatre in St Andrews on …
LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST FILMS (20th CENTURY)
Put together by members of RAMA (Red de Investigación del Audiovisual hecho por Mujeres en América Latina) and drawing from the collection ‘Guerrilla Archiving: Documents for a Feminist History of Latin American Cinemas’ (Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 20.3), this list offers a cluster of 15 key examples of feminist Latin American filmmaking of the 20th century.
ONWARD! Flaherty Film Seminar Gatherings
We are delighted to share that the Department of Film Studies and the Centre for Screen Cultures is collaborating with LUX Scotland and The Flaherty Seminar this semester and is a co-organiser …
Antuca: film screening and Q&A with Maria Barea
Join us for a screening of the Peruvian film Antuca, followed by a question and answer (Q&A) session with the film’s director, Maria Barea. The event will take place from 5pm …
Slavery on Screen from Havana to Hollywood: A Themed Playlist
Phillip Kaisary showcases five cinematic feature-length films produced in Havana in the 1970s that challenge the longstanding tradition of eliding Black resistance to slavery.
Women and Global Documentary
A themed playlist to accompany the upcoming publication of Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century (2025), edited by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren.
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 …
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.