Film Screening: Oqlanmagan
The Centre for Screen Cultures, the Centre for Art and Politics, and the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence collaborated on a screening of the documentary …
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 …
Film Screening: The Drum
In collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Centre for Screen Cultures organised a special screening of the 1938 film The Drum in black-and-white on 16mm film. The screening accompanied the current exhibition ‘Our …
Film Symbiosis: Embodied Spectators and Nonhuman Animals
Dara Waldron, Technological University of the Shannon (Midwest) This playlist is influenced by research undertaken for a journal article titled ‘Film Symbiosis: Embodied spectatorship and sensory (auto)ethnography in Lucien Castaing-Taylor …
AMPHOTERIC POEMS – THE ARCHITECTURAL AND ANARCHIST FILMS OF THE COLLECTIVE MAYAKOV+SKY PLATFORM
The anarchist collective Mayakov+sky Platform’s (MA.P) main project, since its establishment in 2011, has been the construction of a new methodology in philosophy, economics and poetics called Amphoterics through a …
Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick
The Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art, partnered with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 to present Everyone I Know is Sick, a programme of …
A Themed Playlist from South African Cybermag herri
Curated by herri editor and South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. These ten short film works give a tiny glimpse into the incredibly rich world of contemporary experimental film as curated …
Themed Playlist: Experimental Radical Films from the Radical Film Network
Clive Myer and Mike Dunford Clive Myer and Mike Dunford were considering the space and place of experimental film in today’s so-called “anything goes” multi-platform, media faced society. They were …
Accent as Expertise, Perception, and Desire: A Playlist to Accompany Thinking with an Accent
The editors of Thinking with an Accent have compiled a media playlist to accompany their Open Access collection, available to read for free online or in a variety of downloadable formats. They have chosen a range of media texts, spanning the realms of installation and video art, theater, fiction and documentary film, and music. Their goal, to borrow a phrase from pioneering raciolinguist John Baugh’s foreword to our volume, has been to channel the “methodological liberation that is on display throughout this book,” and to do so in a way that introduces readers to the work of each of our contributors.
Film Screening: Tiempo de Lluvia
On 26 October, the Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the St Andrews Centre for Amerindian, Latin American, and Carribean Studies (CAS), hosted a screening of Tiempo de Lluvia, …
‘Sound, the ultimate multi-tool’ – an online screening of Last Things (2023) + conversation with filmmaker and artist Deborah Stratman and curator Ilinca Vânău
We are thrilled to welcome you to the final event in our three year focus on sound and the moving image with a screening of another incredible (and appropriately titled) …
Shared Resources – A conversation with Jordan Lord and Pooja Rangan
4pm (BST), 25th April: Shared Resources – a conversation with Jordan Lord and Pooja Rangan (online) Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-resources-a-conversation-with-jordan-lord-and-pooja-rangan-tickets-522393241247 In advance of this event we will screen Jordan …
Feeling Thing – A Conversation with Jo Bannon and Julie Rose Bower (online)
The Centre for Screen Cultures is delighted to be running events focusing on sound and the body in 2022-23, starting with an online conversation between Jo Bannon and Julie Rose …
Themed Playlist: Blackstar Theory- Drama, Dream, and David Bowie
Leah Kardos (Kingston University) shares a playlist that illuminates the intertextuality of David Bowie’s work and informs his last three projects, The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015), and the album Blackstar (2016).
Themed Playlist: Mothers of Invention
To celebrate and coincide with the publication of the (fantastic!) Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor, Eds Corinn Columpar and So Mayer deliver a playlist that expands on the book, which examines parenting both a theme and a practice in film and media cultures, where mothering can be seen as a form of radical caring labour.
(Im)material Worlds at Sands International Film Festival of St Andrews
Sands International Film Festival of St Andrews features the (Im)material Worlds programme, hosted by the Centre for Screen Cultures. Get the full programme notes here.
Event: Conversation with Luke Fowler and Lee Patterson, Wednesday 6th April, 3-4.30pm
The Centre for Screen Cultures at University of St Andrews is delighted to be hosting an online screening followed by a conversation between filmmaker Luke Fowler and sound artist Lee …
Event: Fugitive archives: Margaret Tait / Luke Fowler at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 31st March at 6pm
A screening of Margaret Tait’s unfinished films + a live spatial sound composition by Luke Fowler I. Unfinished Films (selected by Luke Fowler) A one-off screening of unfinished films …
Themed Playlist: Ukrainian Films
Inspired by community interest, the FLEFF team decided to develop a film list that would include both historical and contemporary films from Ukraine, a country with a long history of cinema. This is a selection of ten, all available through streaming services.
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.