Thursday 29th April 2021, 7-8:30pm (online) The Centre for Film and Aesthetic Cultures (CFAC) at the University of Reading is delighted to host an online screening of Shulie, a shot-by-shot remake of an…Read More >
Film Theatre and Television
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 >
Film: The Two Popes – with introduction and post-screening masterclass by Academy Award nominated director Fernando Meirelles
We are delighted to confirm attendance of internationally renowned film director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener, Blindness) at the University of Reading. The programme includes an exclusive screening of…Read More >
INTERMIDIA PROJECT – FINAL CELEBRATION
The final celebration of the AHRC-FAPESP funded IntermIdia Project: https://research.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/ PROGRAMME 11h00-13h00 Cinema Screening of Passages (Lúcia Nagib & Samuel Paiva, 2019), 96 mins 13h00-14h00 Atrium Lunch break featuring an…Read More >
Echoes of Manguebeat: video essay and seminar by Amanda Mansur Nogueira
Film production in Pernambuco, in the Northeastern Region of Brazil, grew out of the effervescent music scene of the 1990s. Pernambucan cinema has appropriated Manguebeat music and film in contemporary…Read More >
The Politics of Form: Exploring the role different dramaturgies play in determining the political character of a play (Film Theatre and Television Seminar)
Within the context of British theatre, plays are generally considered political if they address current social and political issues within the content of their narrative. Little attention is paid to…Read More >
‘Mother-F*ers of Invention: Women in Geriaction’ – by the University of Tennessee’s Chris Holmlund, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
“Geriaction” originally referred to the question of how to keep elderly, largely female, patients in nursing homes active. In the last decade it has been applied to aging stars in…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 >
