Department of Film Studies

Sat 27th November 2010 to Sun 28th November 2010

African Film Festival and Interdisciplinary Workshop

The Centre for Film Studies is bringing the fifth annual Africa in Motion: African Film Festival, the UK’s largest African film festival to St Andrews on 27 and 28 November 2010. This event of St Andrews African Film Festival and Interdisciplinary Workshop, sponsored by Gradskills Innovation Grant and St Andrews Shuttle, is free to everyone interested in cinema and African culture.

Tue 23rd November 2010 17:15 to 19:15

CFS Talk: Serazer Pekerman, Framed Intimacy in Transnational Cinemas

This talk will focus on internationally acknowledged art house filmmakers/ auteurs who make use of female characters in order to create a Deleuze and Guattarian 'molecular resistance' against patriarchal regimes in their films.

Fri 19th November 2010 15:00 to 16:00

CFS Talk: John Simmons, Moving Image, Moving Minds and Do Horses Really Fly?- A Personal View of Science Filmmaking

Film has aided specialists in all areas of science to spread the message and film and TV programmes have transformed the appreciation of science across most of society. From Horizon to CSI moving image has taken science literally to the masses, but the portrayal of scientists on film could be in need of an update.

Mon 15th November 2010 14:00 to 15:30

CFS Visit: Gavin Miller, CEO of the Centre for the Moving Image

We are delighted to welcome Gavin Miller, a former producer for Universal and BBC Worldwide and now CEO of the Centre for the Moving Image, to St Andrews to meet with Film Studies staff and postgraduates.

Tue 9th November 2010 17:15 to 19:15

CFS Talk: Jean Michel Frodon (former-editor in-chief, Cahiers du cinema), Questioning the contemporary development of Film Festivals

Film festivals always were much more than a showcase for new films; they were also diplomatic and cultural events. This talk will show that, although these aspects have not faded away, two major new developments that have arisen in recent years.