Film and television actors in the US came out on strike on July 14, causing Hollywood productions to shut down. The action has also had an impact on US films shooting in…Read More >
Film Theatre and Television
An English Literature lecturer experiments with film, philosophy and…sniffing
I recently completed the production of my first film. I started work on it last year following a successful bid to a Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) funding…Read More >
“The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema” leading the path for archives, art and research at the Alt + Shift + Archive Symposium
At the end of September 2021, the AHRC project The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema (AH/R007012/1) hosted the Alt + Shift + Archive symposium, bringing together a wide range…Read More >
Shulie, and the place of the feminist past in the feminist present
‘Sex class is so deep as to be invisible.’ So begins American feminist Shulamith Firestone’s 1970 global blockbuster The Dialectic of Sex. I remember vividly the first time I read…Read More >
What can the arts show us about climate change?
Climate change requires an urgent and radical reconsideration of the relationship between humans and the earth, how we live and how we shape, and are shaped by, the more-than-human world….Read More >
‘I, Sheep’: a woolly perspective on the world
What can we discover from putting a GoPro on a sheep? Teresa Murjas and James Rattee tell us about their unusual animal-led film and poetry project (camera work: Jess the…Read More >
User not found: an immersive performance that is changing the face of theatre
Theatre audiences are used to being told to put their phones away when they arrive for a show, but a new performance led by the University of Reading encourages precisely…Read More >
Philosopher Alain Badiou coming to UoR film conference this November
One of the most significant philosopher of our time, Alain Badiou, is heading to the University of Reading this November for the The Moving Form of Film: Exploring intermediality as…Read More >