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 …
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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 …
Themed Playlist: She’s Come Undone: Apocalypses, Big and Small
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson offers a list of apocalypses written on and through the bodies of girls and women.
News: The Urgency of Participatory Small Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Playlist contributors and advisory board members Patricia Zimmerman and Dale Hudson have published a reflection on their playlists and “The Urgency of Participatory Small Media during the Covid-19 Pandemic” at the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM)
Themed Playlist: Filmed Zoonosis- A History of Onscreen Animal Vectors
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa offers a partial survey of the representation of zoonotic diseases on film– a stable of both narrative and science cinema. How have animals been used to personify disease and communicate a host of political as well as medical anxieties?
Themed Playlist: Corrupted Visions, Interrupted Dreams
From Suzanne Enzerink (Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut) comes a timely and topical playlist: Corrupted Visions, Interrupted Dreams When I …
Themed Playlist: Precarious Lives: The Intersectionality of Poverty
Hannah Mueller (Bowling Green State University) offers a list of films that show poverty as a structural, intersectional issue in contrast to the typical portraits of invidualised suffering overcome by even more individual action.
Themed Playlist: The End of The World: Apocalypse from the Margins
With speculative fiction feeling increasingly less speculative and more predictive, science fiction offers us a way to think about our present. In this playlist, Hannah Mueller presents some transcultural dystopia visions and food for thought.
Themed Playlist: Out to market: Ports and pipelines
Mining and oil exploitation have been a focus of intense fascination for filmmakers and audiences, often mythologised as conquest over nature or visions of the technological sublime and the anthropocene. But what of the material realities of these operations? Maria Velez Serna provides films that render visible the abstracted operations of planetary mining.
Themed Playlist: Embodying Capitalism and its Abuses
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.