KOSMORAMA! Great online resources from the Danish Film Institute
Short films from a small nation - marketing postwar Denmark (13 Nov 2014)Fifty years before Borgen hit British TV screens, Danish directors were making films for British audiences. Driven by the need...
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On Desktop Documentary (or, Kevin B. Lee Goes Meta!)
Kevin B. Lee talks about Desktop Documentary at the University of Sussex, March 17, 2015Film Studies For Free is thrilled to present an entry dedicated to some of the latest work of one of its absolute...
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The Passion(s) of Sam Rohdie (1939-2015)
'In Vertigo, James Stewart's look is as important as the figure [...] whom he regards and who he transforms by his desires [...] It is important that the sight seen has in it something out of place,...
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STUDY OF A SINGLE FILM: On Godard's ALPHAVILLE - Dystopia 50 Years On!
Frame grab from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)"One never understands anything...then suddenly, one evening...you end up dying of it."Lemmy Caution,...
View ArticleStudy of a Single Film: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
INTERSECTION, a videographic film study of In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) By Catherine Grant, Chiara Grizaffi and Denise Liege The above video explores the notion (and some of the motifs) of...
View Article[in]TRANSITION Issues! Rossellini, Marclay, Burnett, Snow, Emoticons, Time,...
THEORY OF RELATIVITY by Catherine Grant is an experimental video about digital intertextuality and cinephiliac relativity. It was inspired, in part, by (the non-open access article) "Time and Time...
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THE CINE-FILES on Film Sound (Chion, Flinn, Beck) & FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL on...
Screenshot from Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006). You can read Mack Hagood's article “The Tinnitus Trope: Acoustic Trauma in Narrative Film”, which refers to this film)Film Studies For Free is...
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The Other Western: great new issue of TRANSFORMATIONS
Frame grab from Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, 1952). Read an article on this film by Helen Miller and Warwick MulesThanks to the always alert and brilliant Adrian Martin, Film Studies For Free got...
View ArticleNew Issues of NECSUS on 'Animals', Godard, Sobchack, Mulvey, Musicals,...
A concise video primer by Catherine Grant on phenomenological film theory as well as a tribute to the works of René Clément, Henri Decae, Vivian Sobchack, Steven Shaviro and Claude Lévi-Strauss....
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NECSUS Issue 5 on Traces: Kracauer, Carax, Farocki, Elsaesser, mobile...
Frame grab from Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2013). Read Saige Walton's article on this film "The beauty of the act: Figuring film and the delirious baroque in Holy Motors" in the Spring 2014 issue of...
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Toute la mémoire du monde: In Memoriam, Alain Resnais (June 3, 1922 - March...
Screenshot from Les Statues meurent aussi (Alain Resnais/Chris Marker, 1953) "I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a livingand it is miraculous to earn a living working...
View ArticleStudy of a Single Film: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
INTERSECTION, a videographic film study of In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) By Catherine Grant, Chiara Grizaffi and Denise Liege The above video explores the notion (and some of the motifs) of...
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On Cinematic Découpage
Opening paragraph from Timothy Barnard's new book Découpage (Montreal: caboose, 2014)découpage French term, untranslatable into English, for an EDITING “plan” of a (sometimes finished) film which is...
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies Post-Conference Round Up:...
Homepage of [in]Transition, 1.1, 2014Film Studies For Free is just back from attending the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. This year it took place in the distinctly...
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Announcing the launch of MEDIA INDUSTRIES! A new international Open Access...
After a hiatus due to some rather pressing research deadlines (and a little holiday), Film Studies For Free pokes its head fleetingly above the e-parapet to announce the exciting launch of a wonderful...
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The Other Western: great new issue of TRANSFORMATIONS
Frame grab from Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, 1952). Read an article on this film by Helen Miller and Warwick MulesThanks to the always alert and brilliant Adrian Martin, Film Studies For Free got...
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Indian Cinema and its Centenary at SYNOPTIQUE
Synoptique cover by Malory Beazley based on an image by flickr user lecercle.It's about time for some link action at Film Studies For Free. Indeed, there will be a little flurry of long overdue entries...
View ArticleNow ONLINE! Jacques Rancière's Lecture on ‘Cinema and the Frontiers of Art’...
Jacques Rancière Lecture on ‘Cinema and the Frontiers of Art’ at CFAC, University of Reading, May 2, 2014Private Q & A Session with Jacques Rancière, preceding his Lecture on ‘Cinema and the...
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On happy and other endings! Kelly Reichardt, Andrew Klevan and James...
The filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Film and Television, "In Conversation" with Dr Andrew Klevan at the University of Oxford on May 23, 2014. Click here to access the video...
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Voyage to the Moon (2015) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano by Ed HughesA new score for Georges Méliès's Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902). Written for The New Music Players and Orchestra of...
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