Amuleto screening and workshop
The Centre for Screen Cultures – in collaboration with the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society; and the British Academy – is …
Documentary
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.
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.
Kartemquin Films, a Themed Playlist
Patricia Aufderheide, American University The U.S. documentary production house Kartemquin Films, launched in 1966 and still going strong, has an amazing, improbable history. This pioneering institution has made films that …
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 …
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 …
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.
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: Seeking Sanctuary
On 7th March, the University of St Andrews will commemorate its second anniversary of its University of Sanctuary status. This is a playlist on the theme of migration and seeking sanctuary.
Themed Playlist: Film, Water, and Politics in the American West
From Tyler Parks, a list of films that promote and explore water landscapes in the American West: How did they envision utopias and progress, and what can we learn from them about how we see development, the environment, and politics today?
Themed Playlist: Discovery and Beginnings
Ania Trzebiatowska has recently joined the University as the festival director of Sands – International Film Festival of St Andrews. She generously contributed a playlist on the theme of discovery and beginnings, featuring her favourite debuts of the past decade.
Themed Playlist: The Documentaries of Marcel Łoziński
Marcel Łoziński is Poland’s best-known and most respected documentarians. Dina Iordanova offers an overview of his influences and works.
Themed Playlist: Engaged Observation
Filmmaker and sound artist Mark Lyken provides a list of films that influenced the making of his recently released film, 1300 Shots. These films push beyond the observational mode in engaging, creative, and inventive ways.
Themed Playlist: The Mediated Voice
Built from the CSC roundtable on The Mediated Voice, a collective playlist that builds on that event to explore connections of voice to gender and race, of dubbing and performance, of authenticity and creativity.
Themed Playlist: Chinese Independent Cinema
A playlist that offers a taster of Chinese independent cinema and some of the holdings of The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA).
The Mediated Voice: Expedition Content (Event)
The Mediated Voice, 2020-21 Centre For Screen Cultures, University Of St Andrews From Michel Chion’s The Voice in Cinema to more recent work by scholars such as Rey Chow, Pooja Rangan, and Jennifer …
The Mediated Voice: Yours in Sisterhood (EVENT)
In November, enjoy a screening of Yours in Sisterhood and a roundtable on archives, dubbing, remediation and gender featuring director Irene Lusztig, Jennifer O’Mear, Tessa Dwyer, Jaimie Baron, and Shruti Narayanswamy. Click here for more information.
Themed Playlist: What to Watch to Prepare for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
In which Leshu Torchin, resident Borat expert and documentary scholar, recommends viewing to accompany Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest foray into Borat and his special brand of documentary work.
Themed Playlist: Family Affairs
In honour of World Mental Health Day (10 October), Richard Warden (Middlefish Films) offers a list of documentaries that take a personal, intimate approach to mental heath issues.