Bristol Uni Film & TV

Our own Sarah Street contributed to a blog post organised by the LSE on films featuring academics and academic life - check it out!

Academic life on the big screen | LSE Higher Education We asked nine film studies academics for their top picks of movies that feature academic life. From The Birds to Wicked, here are their recommendations.

The Afrika Eye Festival is back! Be sure to check out these amazing films, including a discussion led by or own Nariman Massoumi!
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

Experience jazz, decolonization, and history in this powerful, upbeat ride told through the voices of an activist, a diplomat, a writer, and a world leader. From the producer of I Am Not Your Negro—don’t miss it!

Be sure to stick around for the post-screening panel discussion with Nariman Massoumi (Senior Lecturer in Film & Television, documentary filmmaker UoB) and Su Lin Lewis (Professor of Global & Asian History UoB). More TBA...

🔷 When: 16th Nov, 3.30 PM
🔷 Where: Watershed
🎟️ Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3UxLrG9 /via Watershed’s website



On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

In this darkly comedic and surreal tale, director Rungano Nyoni explores the toll family secrets take on their keepers and the complicated costs of speaking up. With David Gallego’s stunning cinematography, witness an experience that will resonate across cultures with On Becoming a Guinea Fowl—the highly anticipated follow-up to I Am Not a Witch!

📅 16th Nov, 8:00 PM
📍 Watershed
🎟️ Tickets: https://bit.ly/3NKxtgl /via Watershed’s website

Could it be? Yes, it is! This week, Flashback Film Club is becoming Flashback TV Club (Rerun Club?) and screening the miniseries Over the Garden Wall (Patrick McHale, 2014). It’s the perfect treat to celebrate Autumn and all things spooky. You can learn a bit more about the show here.

This Friday, 3PM, in the 5th floor cinema. See you there! 🎃👻🧙‍♀️

Congratulations to our 2019 graduate Harry Plowden for the success of his latest short film All Gucci My Broski, selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick! The film also won best UK short at Manchester Animation Festival and Brighton Animation Festival, among other honours. 🎉🎉🎉

All Gucci My Broski Jonny wants to be a good person. Jonny wants a lot of things. Written, directed and animated by Harry Plowden Starring Harry Plowden, Erica Flint, Joe Pass and…

Announcing our first Flashback Film Club of the year: Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994).
This Friday, 3PM, in the 5th floor cinema. Free to attend, just show up!

About FFC: Flashback Film Club is a department film club where students and staff get together each week to watch a film that is having an anniversary. If you are interesting in showing a particular film, just let Jacqueline know, and we can add it to the roster, and you can even introduce it!

Congrats to our PhD student Leonie Gschwendtberger on winning the inaugural SFPS Essay Prize for her essay 'Beyond "the Human": The Refusal to show the 'Other' in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Film Reassemblage (1982).'

It will be published in the autumn/winter issue 14.2 (2024) of BFPS.

The SFPS Essay Prize is a new, yearly award of the Society of Francophone Postcolonial Studies for an essay written in French or in English on the topic of the annual SFPS conference of the previous year. The competition is open to PhD students and early-career/non-tenured/postdoctoral academics and the winner receives a cash prize of £100. Both winner and runner-up will be published in the following issue of the Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, the Society's bi-annual journal.

This Friday, Flashback Film Club is screening Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964). 3PM, in the 5th floor cinema. See you there!

From the Criterion Collection: "Carl Dreyer’s last film neatly crowns his career: a meditation on tragedy, individual will and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love—but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks. Always the stylistic innovator, Dreyer employs long takes and theatrical staging to concentrate on Nina Pens Rode’s sublime portrayal of the proud and courageous Gertrud."

Our own Sarah Street has a new blog post as part of her STUDIOTEC project, discussing how the project recreated film studios in VR to enable participants to see "studios in their heyday, introducing the main buildings and peeking inside to see how films were made, and hearing about the people who worked in studios." Read more via the link: https://studiotec.info/2024/06/14/studios-in-virtual-reality/

This Friday, Flashback Film Club proudly presents Dig! (Ondi Timoner, 2004). 3PM, in the 5th floor cinema. See you there!

This Friday, Flashback Film Club presents Jean Vigo's L'Atalante. Friday, 3pm, in the 5th floor cinema. See you there!

Congrats to our own Prof. Sarah Street, whose book chapter is part of an award winning book collection.

The Prize is: Best Edited Collection from AIM, the Portuguese Association for the Moving Image. The book is: Lúcia Nagib and Stefan Solomon (eds.) (2023), The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other Media. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-moving-form-of-film-9780197621714?cc=gb&lang=en&

Sarah's chapter, ‘Up the Junction, Intermediality and Social Change’ can be read here: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/up-the-junction-intermediality-and-social-change

By popular demand, we have another Flashback Film Club this Friday, where we will be screening A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974). See you there!