Themed Playlist: Filming Abortion
From Maria San Filippo, a tie-in to her recent Flow column “Maude & Me; Or, Responsibilities of a Feminist Media Critic,” this list features films that represent abortion in resonant, hopefully mind-changing ways.
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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 Female Detective on TV
To coincide with the publication of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture’s issue on the Female Detective on TV, this collaboratively-created playlist features several of the collection’s contributors offering their recommendations of TV shows featuring female detectives. Enjoy this list of things to watch and read.
Themed Playlist: Visual Design: Ruth E Carter and Hannah Beachler
This playlist reflects on the Oscar-winning work of Hannah Beachler and Ruth E Carter for Black Panther (2018), and what this means for representation more widely.
Themed Playlist: Queer Feminist Citations
Clara Bradbury-Rance’s playlist offers a selection of films brought together by their use of queer / feminist recollections and citations.
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: 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.
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: Vivas y furiosas (alive and furious): Women in Latin American Horror
Valeria Villegas Lindvall offers a list that highlights the creativity of Latin American genre filmmaking through a selection of horror films by women. These are provocative works designed to get your blood pumping and mind reeling.
Themed Playlist: A Chthululist
William Brown and David H. Fleming present A Chthululist As the proverb goes: try saying that with false teeth! Shamelessly to tie in with the release of …
Themed Playlist: Seven Films by Women from Sweden
In this list, Anna Backman Rogers offers a personal and brief look into the cinematic offerings of women from Sweden
Themed Playlist: This is Not a Playlist
In which William Brown points out that for all the play, there is also work in a list, and offers up a list of films that also blend work and home space, sometimes also making the viewer work for their play.
Themed Playlist: Women-Made Indigenous Cinema from Canada
Film blogger, cinephile, film critic and educator, Girish Shambu, provides a list of 10 film/media works made by Indigenous women from Canada– all available to watch for free on the NFB website.
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: Women and Documentary- Naomi Kawase Online
Dina Iordanova offers an annotated and infomative playlist centred on documentarian Naomi Kawase.
Streaming Video Resources for Times of Social Distancing
Looking for things to watch that aren’t part of the usual suspects? Check out (and contribute) to this list of global and hard to find films available via streaming.