Join Mariana Cunha for her talk ‘Enchantment as resistance in times of ecological damage: Contemporary ethnofictions in Latin America’, online on Thursday 18 May 2023, 12-1pm. In this presentation, Mariana Cunha examines the ways in which a group of recent films from Latin America engage with the impacts of environmental destruction and the genocide of indigenous […]
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These two issues expand on the many possibilities in the moving images’ encounter with the artistic, material, and historic. One common thread to be found amongst the films discussed in Issue 1 concerns when moving images are not simply moving but shifting between other forms. Our contributors argue that the practice of intermediality across art, […]
We live like trees inside the footsteps of our ancestors, an exhibition curated by Dr Mariana Cunha (University of Westminster) & Dr Marianna Tsionki (Leeds Arts University), opens at Blenheim Walk Gallery in Leeds on Thursday 11th May, 5-7. Featuring works by Marianne Hoffmeister Castro, Jeannette Muñoz, Renata Padovan, Maya Watanabe. Rooted in the indigenous philosophy […]
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Dr Christopher Hogg was invited to Italy as keynote speaker for the University of Bologna’s F-ACTOR conference, investigating television acting, March 27-28 2023. Chris’s keynote presentation was titled ‘The Specificities of Television Acting: Reflections on Conversations with British Actors and Casting Directors’. […]
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Rooted Stories, a solo exhibition by Uriel Orlow, curated by Filipa Oliveira at Casa da Cerca – Contemporary Art Center, in Almada, Portugal. “Perhaps for the first time in our history, we are beginning to have a collective awareness both of the reality of climate change that has long been predicted, but also of its […]
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CREAM PhD researcher, Vincent Du, was recently commissioned by Al Jazeera’s award-winning weekly current affairs programme, 101 East, to make a documentary over the summer in Afghanistan. The resulting documentary, The Chinese entrepreneurs chasing an Afghan ‘gold rush’, investigates the rise of Chinese investors in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover. When the Taliban […]
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Ancestry, Exhaustion and Environmental Destruction with Mojisola Adebayo and Mariana Cunha. The FTT Research Seminar Series is hosted by the University of Reading and puts research from scholars in Film, Theatre and Television into dialogue. This celebrates the exciting intersection of these fields within our department and seeks to support collaboration and conversation across Film, […]
The Moving Image and Art Review Journal (MIRAJ) and the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM) are proud to present ‘Expanding the field of practice-based-research: the videographic feminist diptych’, a talk and screening by Professor Catherine Fowler, MIRAJ International Advisory Board. Over the course of one sleepy New York morning / sleepless London night, Arabella (Michaela […]
Dr. Ozlem Koksal served a jury member at the 33rd Ankara Film Festival in Turkey for the national feature film competition. This year 12 feature films were part of the competition. The jury gave the best film award to director Emin Alper’s film Kurak Gunler/Burning Days and the best director award to Ozcan Alper with […]
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Jane Barnwell has been invited to the Production Designers Gathering to discuss her latest book, Production Design & the Cinematic Home (Palgrave, 2022) which explores the significance of the design of the home in film and television. The book employs a methodology Barnwell has pioneered for the analysis of production design helping make visible the […]