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.
In this playlist, Dina Iordanova presents three docu-hybrid films from the 1930s Soviet Union.
The COVID-19 pandemic will be digitized. The shifts from in-person to screen-based interactions has been all encompassing and our virtual selves have become more present than ever. In this list, Jennifer O’Meara offers up film and video that have been showing us versions of the virtual self.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Dina Iordanova has been excavating the Internet and navigating its abundance to share hidden yet available gems with her friends and colleagues. In this list, she shares the work of Artavazd Peleshyan.
Hungarian cinema often gets associated with one name only – Béla Tarr, the master of slow cinema – yet there is a lot more to be explored. Lucy Szemetova offers a taster plus a link to an online film premiere!
Phil Mann provides a brief history of Hungarian Cinema with a tour through the Hungarian National Film Institute Archives.
At a time when we’re pretty much living our own ‘Bottle Episode’, Zoe Shacklock offers a list of some of the most notable examples of this particular genre.
Film blogger, cinephile, film critic and educator, Girish Shambu, provides a list of 10 film/media works made by Indigenous women from Canada– all available to watch for free on the NFB website.
In anticipation of their online premiere of Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse (Iara Lee, 2020), Cultures of Resistance Films shares some selections from their documentary film offerings which will be streaming until 26th April..
As social distancing requires we withdraw from touch, Lucy Donaldson provides a list of films that call attention to materiality, to touch and to bodily contact.
Leshu Torchin offers a selection of films embodying or representing the female gaze. What is that, you ask? These films could answer that question, which even when answered, requires more.
María Fernanda Miño offers up a taster of Ecuadorian cinema with twelve films representing a range of genres and perspectives.
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.
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.
Dina Iordanova offers an annotated and infomative playlist centred on documentarian Naomi Kawase.
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.