🎉Nuts time to be announcing job security but thrilled & relieved that after 2 years as Teaching Fellow @WarwickFilmTV i've been promoted to Assistant Professor (T&R)! Incredibly lucky to have landed in a dept. where I feel at home. Now to let go of perpetual state of panic...
Friends in London, I will be giving a talk on the 29th titled " State-Sponsored Documentary Asks the Woman’s Question"
as part of the UCL Film Studies Speaker Series . Hope to see some familiar faces there.
https://t.co/CTZp6Vr9Zu
this was a real pleasure, and what Yaya and Giulia have to say about filmmaking of women working in the LA Rebellion serves as a beautiful introduction to their work
Adapted from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Chopra’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning SMOOTH TALK features a breakout performance from Laura Dern.
The screening on Sunday 8 Dec will be introduced by @clairehly
https://t.co/Qz95dbl0vK
this Sunday, films by Julie Dash, Alile Sharon Larkin, and Zeinabu irene Davis with a post-screening discussion @TheGardenCinema – come along! https://t.co/AqMe0jfLvp
Trailblazers continues @TheGardenCinema with a programme of shorts showcasing the work of 3 'insurgent sisters' of the LA Rebellion. THey have not been screened together in the UK & we have secured them through the UCLA Archive & Women Make Movies. This promises to be v special!
The screening on Sunday 1 December will be followed by a panel discussion with writer and programmer Rogan Graham, British-born Jamaican writer & cultural producer Yaya Azariah Clarke and experimental films scholar, @GiuliaRho, which will be chaired by writer & editor @laurastaab
Realised my book is currently half price to preorder ($15 paperback!) as part of @upmiss's sitewide sale. The sale ends 20 November so act quick if you want to snap up a bargain! https://t.co/zFwx0iKGzs
Only a handful of tickets left for DESERT HEARTS. This landmark of queer & independent filmmaking, blazed a trail for lesbian representation on screen. Screening as part of #Trailblazers curated by @alpember.
27 Nov
https://t.co/PIHsCuKaYy
Joan Micklin Silver's BETWEEN THE LINES is an iconic 1970s comedy with a socialist bite. Featuring debut performances from John Heard, Joe Morton and Jeff Goldblum.
The screening on 17 November will be introduced by writer & lecturer Dr Julia Wagner.
https://t.co/CtUbgL2MVy
Lovely feedback from attendee on Saturday: 'How lucky that someone took the time to hear those stories, because especially with women, especially women activists, they're written out of history [...] if you do hear it it's narrated through somebody else' https://t.co/gnICXPuYPn
Double bill of Julia Reichert's Union Maids and Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA screens tomorrow @TheGardenCinema @ 7.30PM. Come be invigorated at this terrible time for US politics by these incredible stories of women's union activism. Tickets here: https://t.co/gnICXPuYPn
Double bill of Julia Reichert's Union Maids and Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA screens tomorrow @TheGardenCinema @ 7.30PM. Come be invigorated at this terrible time for US politics by these incredible stories of women's union activism. Tickets here: https://t.co/gnICXPuYPn
Our #Trailblazers season, curated by @alpember, continues this week with Elaine May’s MIKEY & NICKY, and a landmark double bill featuring two films from 1976 that document women’s contributions to the labour movement: UNION MAIDS & HARLAN COUNTY.
https://t.co/zUwd6poENo
If you'd like to have a thrilling (& intellectually stimulating!) afternoon celebrating the amazing range of US films made in the 70s, come early to the double bill of female directed docs UNION MAIDS&HARLAN COUNTY, USA @4PM. I'll be introing&hosting a discussion in the bar after
Next Saturday night @TheGardenCinema are showing DOG DAY AFTERNOON. It is one of Al Pacino's greatest performances. I'll be there to introduce the film.
Tickets: https://t.co/qU8tODGney
Elaine May's offbeat gangster thriller, MIKEY & NICKY, is an unsung masterpiece of American cinema, with a career-best performance by John Cassavetes.
On 2 Nov there will be a welcome by curator @alpember & Introduction by @christinalefou
2 & 6 Nov
https://t.co/xcEYLWxLMk
We're looking for proposals for a SIG panel at the @baftss conference, Warwick, 26-28 Mar 2025. Any papers or panel ideas related to LGBTQIA+ screen studies that respond to the theme of Global Aesthetics are welcome. Get in touch with us at [email protected] by 2 Dec
TRAILBLAZERS starts next week. Celebrating the work of women directors in the USA in the 1970s & 80s. Curated by @alpember, it includes a rare screening of Mikey and Nicky, the landmark of lesbian filmmaking Desert Hearts, LA Rebellion shorts, + more...
https://t.co/zUwd6po6XQ