During the first semester of the 2025/26 year, the Department of Film Studies is hosting two Latin American film scholars. Their stay enriches the ongoing collaboration the Department cultivates with … Read more
Dr Paul Flaig’s new book has just been published by Bloomsbury! From cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse’s diagnosis as a “melo-maniac,” Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed explores … Read more
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
