New Book: Pop Cinema
The book Pop Cinema, co-edited by Prof Glyn Davis (Film Studies) and Dr Tom Day (Executive Director of the Film-makers’ Co-op, New York), has been published by Edinburgh University Press. … Read more
Roundtable: Safeguarding and managing audiovisual heritage in a time of environmental crisis
How can we protect audiovisual heritage when climate change is putting film materials that are already under threat at further risk due to rising water levels, flooding, increasing humidity, and … Read more
New book: The Interactive Documentary in Canada
The book The Interactive Documentary in Canada, co-edited by Prof Michael Brendan Baker (Sheridan College) and Dr Jessica Mulvogue, has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Interactive documentary emerged … Read more
Visualising Transnational Solidarity Workshop
Resistance print cultures, in the form of magazines, posters, pamphlets and other ephemera played a crucial role in coordinating, maintaining, and organizing anticolonial movements and solidarities in the global south. … Read more
New Book: Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century and Screening of Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (1999)
“It’s so impressive! The director is surely a cinephile”, expressed Bernard Bentley immediately after the screening of Sebastián Cordero’s Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Rodents, 1999). This was Bentley’s first encounter with … Read more
Community Screenings of Palestinian Cinema
Community screenings present a unique opportunity to introduce local publics to lesser-known film cultures. They provide a framing through which foreign cinema makes sense in relation to local concerns as … Read more
Richard Bolisay in conversation with Kidlat Tahimik
Considered the father of independent cinema in the Philippines, Kidlat Tahimik has been making movies for over five decades. He is known for his unwavering support of personal cinema and indigenous culture … Read more
PhD student Ilinca Vanau at BFMAF
March 2023 saw the 18th edition of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), an annual festival based in Berwick-upon-Tweed, showcasing new cinema and artists’ moving image works. The concentrated, wildly explorative, international … Read more
Re-imagining Local Film Histories through Critical and Creative Practice: 1300 SHOTS (Mark Lyken, 2020)
‘Re-imagining Local Film Histories through Critical and Creative Practice’ is a collaboration between filmmaker Mark Lyken and the Department of Film Studies to produce a film and exhibition about The … Read more
PhD Update: Lucy Szemetová
The PhD students in the Department of Film Studies are an active group, and continue to be, even under a global pandemic. Lucy Szemetová, a 1st year PhD student, for instance, has conducted a two-month fellowship at the Blinken Open Society Archives (Budapest, Hungary) where she has also secured a post. And she has hosted a free screening of The Free University (2019).