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. ...
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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. ...
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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....
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The 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....
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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? ...
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A nostalgic playlist about Venice comprising lesser known and expected films. Not the usual Venice playlist. ...
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The 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...
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Kristen 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....
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Clive 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....
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In this list, Anna Backman Rogers offers a personal and brief look into the cinematic offerings of women from Sweden...
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In this playlist, Dina Iordanova presents three docu-hybrid films from the 1930s Soviet Union. ...
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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: ...
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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...
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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! ...
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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.....
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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. ...
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María Fernanda Miño offers up a taster of Ecuadorian cinema with twelve films representing a range of genres and perspectives. ...
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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. ...
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Dina Iordanova offers an annotated and infomative playlist centred on documentarian Naomi Kawase....
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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. ...
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