ONWARD! | Flaherty Film Seminar Gatherings - Department of Film Studies & Centre for Screen Cultures collaboration with LUX Scotland

9 September 2025

In Autumn 2025 LUX Scotland will host three events as part of the 70th annual Flaherty Seminar in partnership with The Hunterian, Cooper Gallery and the Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews.

Expanding on the Flaherty Seminar's 70th edition 'ONWARD!' held in New York City in June 2025, this series of Gatherings will present and bridge connections from films selected from the Seminar screenings which were programmed by Janaína Oliveira, Carlos Gutiérrez, and Richard Herskowitz, alongside programming partners Christopher Harris, Zaina Bseiso, and Louis Massiah.

As unique and discursive events, each Gathering will offer the opportunity for the audience to engage in discussion as we explore the history and current movements in non-fiction filmmaking. This programme has been devised to coincide with Margaret Salmon's exhibition 'Assembly' at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, and with Grace Ndiritu's exhibition 'Compassionate Rebels in Action' (part of The Ignorant Art School) at Cooper Gallery, Dundee.

The event in St Andrews will take place at 5pm Saturday 6th December at the Buchanan Lecture Theatre.

Still from Camille Billops, ‘Take Your Bags’ (1988, USA). Courtesy of Third World Newsreel. — Camille Billops, 'Take Your Bags' (1988, USA). Courtesy of Third World Newsreel.