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). ...
Read MoreA playlist that offers a taster of Chinese independent cinema and some of the holdings of The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA). ...
Read MoreThe 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 O’Meara, film and media studies have been heavily invested in understanding and theorising the voice through...
Read MoreIn 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. ...
Read MoreIn 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. ...
Read MoreIn 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....
Read MoreThe Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) has launched a three-way international collaboration with the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) and the Centre for Screen Cultures Playlist initiative at the University of St. Andrews Scotland to showcase playlists about online media projects about COVID-19....
Read MoreBenjamin 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? ...
Read MoreA nostalgic playlist about Venice comprising lesser known and expected films. Not the usual Venice playlist. ...
Read MoreThe global pandemic of Covid-19 has brought with it a pandemic of viral misinformation, or information from the top down. How can media, and in particular, the domestic and socially distanced media, combat this spread? From Dale Hudson (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Patricia R. Zimmermann...
Read MoreKristen Fuhs (Woodbury University) provides a list of documentaries that one can watch to gain a better understanding of the intersection of race, policing, and miscarriages of justice in the U.S....
Read MoreClive Myer of Eclectic Films Ltd has worked with the Radical Film Network to produce a playlist to get you started on the remarkable collection of activist and experimental films produced by members of the RFN....
Read MoreIn this list, Anna Backman Rogers offers a personal and brief look into the cinematic offerings of women from Sweden...
Read MoreIn this playlist, Dina Iordanova presents three docu-hybrid films from the 1930s Soviet Union. ...
Read MoreIn 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: ...
Read MoreDriven 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...
Read MoreHungarian 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! ...
Read MoreIn 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.....
Read MoreLeshu 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. ...
Read MoreMaría Fernanda Miño offers up a taster of Ecuadorian cinema with twelve films representing a range of genres and perspectives. ...
Read MoreThere'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. ...
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