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.
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.
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.
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.
In which Leshu Torchin thinks aloud about Henry Gates Jr’s Signifyin(g), Marlon Riggs’s Black Macho, Blaxploitation, and Dolemite is My Name.
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.
NOTE: As a piece designated ‘Thinking Aloud’, I recommend reading it as that. On Tuesday, 29 October 2019, U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) abstained from voting on a mesaure …
So many have hailed VR as the ultimate ‘empathy machine’ capable of deepening empathy and recognition of another person’s humanity. But what really are we to make of this technology, the capacity for producing or enhancing empathy, and the ethics that attend it? Once we can put aside the all-too-familiar bid to techno-utopianism, what are the possibilities and limits? What are the questions we should be asking?
Join us for a public conversation on The Handmaid’s Tale and its multiple cultural and political expressions featuring scholars from Film Studies, International Relations, Philosophy, and Russian as well as you, the audience. We will explore ways of approaching this phenomenon (and Atwood’s recently released sequel, The Testaments) so that we may investigate its significance and the issues it raises.
The acclaimed sound duo Herschel 36 provide a live accompaniment of experimental soundscapes that breathe new life into a classic Weimar-eraprecursor to Cosmos, Wunder der Schöpfung (1926), 26th October at the Byre.
On 27th August, 13 Reasons Why (Bryan Yorkey, Netflix, 2017-) returned to Netflix for a third series and it has me reflecting on the ways media are seen to influence audiences and are used as tools for influence.
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’.
On 29th July, the third annual DocSalon took place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Our subject for discussion: Is Empathy Enough?