Category Archives: Essay Film Spring 2017

Thanks everyone, once again, for your work in class  this term and for your openness and receptivity to all kinds of material. Just a small collection of links today, in case you want to watch any of the material we covered today again. I’m totally open to essays that engage with this kind of next […]

If you want to write on either the Farocki or the Lockhart films, the good news is that they are both online. You can watch the Lockhart film over and over again via UBUweb, while the Farocki film is accessible through Vimeo.  

Films by Hito Steyerl A selection of films by Steyerl are available at UBUweb, including November (2004) and Lovely Andrea (2007). You can watch How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Education .Mov File (2013) at the Artforum website and read a bit about it at the MoMA website. There is also a Monty […]

For those of you who are working on a rapid response to The Stuart Hall Project (or who are thinking of writing a final paper on it) there’s a just posted interview with Akomfrah in the indispensable Los Angeles Review of Books. Check it here. Asked about Hall’s influence, here’s what Akomfrah says, The first […]

More by Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective As I said in class, it was a hard choice to make between screening The Stuart Hall Project and Handsworth Songs (Black Audio Film Collective, 1986, UK). If you have any interest in Britain in the 1980s, the political reaction to Thatcher and racism, or the […]

More by Varda Sadly, The Gleaners and I is not available on Kanopy or in the UW library collection, but they do have two copies in the Winnipeg Public Library (WPL) collection. Work together and share! And do remember that Varda’s The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later is on the same DVD and you […]

There’s no trailer out there, it seems, for Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I so this photo of Varda taking a quick nap in the room set up for her when she was the special guest at the Toronto International Film Festival a few years ago will have to do.