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 several academic institutions from the Global South.
Dr Julio Gonzales, based at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, has been awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to conduct the archival research project “Vinegared Images, Disappearing Histories: Safeguarding the Peruvian Newsreels Archive” with Isabel Seguí. His six-month stay is bearing notable fruit, including the digitisation of three short films by Peruvian film reels director, Bertha Saldaña.
Another longstanding collaborator of Seguí, Dr María Aimaretti, based at Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), has come to Scotland as a St Andrews Global Fellow to conduct research for her project “Global Feminist Methods / Local Interventions: Towards a Non-androcentric Historicisation of Argentine Cinema.”
Beyond conducting activities at St Andrews, Gonzales, Aimaretti, and Seguí, together with Bolivian PhD candidate Mary Carmen Molina Ergueta, were invited to present their work at the symposium ‘Useful Cinemas / Useful Archives: Labour, History and Mediation in Latin American Film and Video‘, organised in London by David Wood (UCL) and Miguel Errazu (Goldsmiths) (7-8 October 2025, held at UCL). At the symposium, they had the opportunity to collectively reflect on ongoing research on Latin American film and video with other colleagues based in the UK.