‘Reading Assembly: Care’ is a collaborative research project working at the intersections of art, care and social research. The project aims to make every day ‘acts of care’ visible through…Read More >
Film
CFAC presents Shulie (Dir. Elisabeth Subrin, 1997)
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 >
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 >
Dwoskin, disability and… accessibility: Face of Our Fear
Dwoskin, disability, and… accessibility: Face of Our Fear is the first in a series of rare screenings and discussion events exploring the experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s complex relationships with disability, accessibility,…Read More >
A tale told in timecodes
On Friday 5 March, the Stephen Dwoskin Project, led by Rachel Garfield, head of the School of Art, will mount the first in a series of screening and discussion events,…Read More >
The Dig on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal – according to an archaeologist
Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was…Read More >
The landscape of new Brazilian cinema
The Institute of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures at the University of St Andrews is organising a workshop on The Landscape of New Brazilian Cinema with scholar – and now filmmaker –…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 >
‘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 >
