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Seeing Migration: Britain on Film on Tour
9 October 2019
Since 2014 the Independent Cinema Office (ICO) has partnered with the British Film Institute (BFI) to curate feature-length programmes of short archive films, taken from the UK’s national and regional film archives, and distribute them to cinemas and community film exhibitors across the country. These ‘Britain on Film on Tour’ packages have brought archive films… continue reading.
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Power to the People: British Music Videos 1966-2016
9 October 2019
Music business mogul Jeff Ayeroff once commented: ‘there is no doubt in my mind that many music videos play to the most base elements of our culture. But there are also many videos that show the best elements, and those can only be described as high art’ . This statement makes clear the somewhat awkward… continue reading.
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Resisting displacement, overcoming separation in Palestinian Cinema
9 October 2019
Since 2016, Sarita Malik, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at Brunel University London, has been leading a team of researchers working on a large AHRC funded consortia project focused on the relationship between communities, creative production and inequality. Creative Interruptions researches how marginalised communities use the arts, media and creativity to challenge exclusion. Through… continue reading.
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Welcome to Viewfinder Issue 112
15 May 2019
ViewFinder transitioned from a print magazine to online only last issue (111) and this is my first real issue in charge of the editorial. It’s exciting to be at the helm of change and I’m proud to see this issue come together so quickly. Since we moved to being exclusively online I wanted to increase… continue reading.
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Our Responsibility to Tell New Stories
15 May 2019
It is an incredible privilege to be here tonight at the Curzon Soho to witness all these amazing filmmakers and young filmmakers who have inspired me with their creativity, their passion and their desire to tell a brilliant story. In this difficult, divided and fearful time, our culture and society needs storytellers more than ever… continue reading.
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The House That Jack Built
14 May 2019
Lars von Trier builds his films around leitmotifs that provide an eerie stability for the viewer. In The House That Jack Built this is no different, von Trier works in ‘Fame’ by David Bowie at moments of extreme cruelty. The sultry energy of the song gives the morbidity of the scenes it is played over… continue reading.
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Grenfell Tower and Social Murder
14 May 2019
This article first appeared in ViewFinder 112 [Photograph © ChiralJon] “what are we going to do afterwards with the tower after / Is this tower in the sky going to be a constant reminder of man's inhumanity against man?” – Clarrie Mendy, cousin of Khadija Saye and Mary Mendy who were both victims of the Grenfell… continue reading.
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Emmeline Pankhurst: The Making of a Militant
14 May 2019
I’d heard of Emmeline Pankhurst of course; growing up in Manchester, the original Suffragette City, the Pankhursts were part of our history but until we started making this documentary I was embarrassingly lacking in any knowledge about her as a person. I wanted to see what turned this Mum from Moss Side into the Militant… continue reading.
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ADAPT - How Television Used to be Made
14 May 2019
Suddenly it is hard to avoid an encounter with TV material created using analogue technologies. • BoB contains several thousand analogue-originated programmes • Organisations as diverse as Kaleidescope, BBC Archive, Ident Central, Talking Pictures TV and Network Distributing are all actively engaged in making old programming available • YouTube contains vast amounts of analogue TV,… continue reading.
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Male Factor Infertility and the Media: Masculinity and the Hegemonic Hierarchy
14 May 2019
We are routinely informed that infertility ‘the world over, remains largely a woman’s problem’ (Van Balen and Inhorn 2002: 19). Evelina Sterling makes this point when she tells us that ‘[e]ven though there are as many infertile men as women, women have traditionally borne the brunt of the medical, social, and cultural burdens when a… continue reading.