Back to School: Trans and Queer Youth Coming-of-Age Around the World
A playlist drawn from and inspired by the Transgender Media Portal composed by its curator, Aliisa Qureshi.
Playlist
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: Phone/Camera – Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling
Check out the Frames Cinema Journal 18 cross-over event with a themed playlist entitled Phone-Camera at the Intersection of Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling.
International Collaboration with Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
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.
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: Better Worlds
Tanya Horeck’s playlist, ‘Better Worlds’ contains serialised TV shows whose utopic visions are deceptively political as they offer ways of imagining and feeling possibilities and alternatives.
Themed Playlist: Mapping Time
Media think with and through us, presenting us with images, memories, and experiences that may challenge our everyday perception. This list from Eileen Rositzka is for those who like putting things into perspective.
Themed Playlist: Hungarian Cinema- A Taster in 12+ 1 (mostly) Contemporary Films
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!
Themed Playlist: An (Abridged) History of Hungarian Cinema
Phil Mann provides a brief history of Hungarian Cinema with a tour through the Hungarian National Film Institute Archives.
Themed Playlist: The Bottle Episode
At a time when we’re pretty much living our own ‘Bottle Episode’, Zoe Shacklock offers a list of some of the most notable examples of this particular genre.
Themed Playlist: Films from the Cultures of Resistance Network
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..
Themed Playlist: The Female Gaze
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.
Themed Playlist: An Ecuadorian Cinema Taster
María Fernanda Miño offers up a taster of Ecuadorian cinema with twelve films representing a range of genres and perspectives.
Themed Playlist: Disease in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
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.
Themed Playlist: A Self-Isolator’s Silent Film Festival
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.
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.