Film Geographies Exploring the relationship between film and place Join to Watch Browse All Films Recommended Why is ‘Old’ Damascus so appealing to European and North American tourists and their nostalgic Orientalist imaginations? Mysteries of the Orient The complexities and controversies surrounding mangrove reforestation in Senegal and The Gambia Money in the Mangroves Looking at the representation and plight of different populations living in Zambia’s Meheba Refugee Settlement and in its mining surroundings Withering Refuge Different people, filmed in New York, play with the wording of an official document in which immigrants to the US are described as beggars and thieves A Coney Island of the Mind 20:00 This film documents an island landscape in transition. Shot across seasons on the former military island of Örö on the Finnish Archipelago, the film highlights the tensions and transitions running through a landscape of nationally-important ecosystems and species, decaying and rusting military structures, war graves, Iron Age burial cairns and a nascent tourism industry. The film forms a new mode of documenting the tangles of life that pattern Örö, across various scales of space and time. Fusing techniques from geographical, film and sound art practices, it offers new approaches to storying ‘blasted’ Anthropocene landscapes. Örö A look at how the weaving of the Huarpe indigenous communities in Argentina, is part of a heritage of resistance The Weaver What and how is Ceuta? A group of men await the moment to continue their journey to Europe crossing the sea The colour of the sea. A border filmic experience in Ceuta Coralie, a 30-year-old girl who makes an unusual choice: to live on her bicycle because she is tired of crossing urban space chased and tormented by men By Bike She Lives Following the process of how wastewater is treated, made into Milorganite, or returned to Lake Michigan Moonlight, Milorganite, and You Based on the stories of women who dip, dive and swim in rivers, lakes and seas The Water Holds Me/The Water Binds Us The Lightwell listens to the sounds that intensify inside a building during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic The Lightwell Testimonies of unaccompanied young people as they navigate ‘the system’ in the UK Stories too big for a case file Borders & Migration A return to childhood through the memories of Oakland Chinatown locals Where is Home? Set in Dakar, Senegal, a tracing of the aspirations and dilemmas of young people caught between staying and seeking new horizons Barça ou Barzakh Stories from different generations of Chinese people about their lives establishing restaurants in Cwmbran, Swansea, and Cardiff in south Wales since the 1960s Taste & Space: How Chinese Restaurants Shape South Wales An exploration of the identities and senses of place and belonging of Latinos who have grown up in Nashville Oye, We’re From Here, Too! The work of Bay Area muralists who tell stories of the Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities A Place to Call Home The trials and triumphs of women from the Ursari (bear trainers) nomadic group while travelling from Eastern Europe to the UK We went, we went (Gelem, Gelem) Following a courier on their night-time newspaper delivery in Vienna, Austria Daily News A young migrant worker and her left-behind family struggle with debt and water conflicts caused by contract farming schemes in the Mekong Delta. Leaving the Rice Field In Huelva, Spain, half of all agricultural workers who pick berries are migrants from Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America The Invisible An investigation into the impact of reintroducing cheetahs to India's Kuno National Park on the neighbouring villagers Life on Hold Ecologies & Environment A seasonal look at the Morcom Rose Garden in California Morcom Rose Garden Following Arroyo Viejo creek from the Oakland hills to the San Francisco Bay Arroyo Viejo Following the Bajau Laut fishers navigating the fishingscape of Semporna, in Malaysia Anohak A portrait of the interconnection between place and people in a commuter parking lot in Oakland, California (In)Between Spaces An exploration of the transformative potential of small acts of kindness in a late night café About the Night A look at the everyday resistance of mayoras - Black elder women - protecting the Pasa Tiple wetland in Columbia Resisting the Landscape: Sugarcane Doesn’t Make Soup Reimagining the notion of belonging/outsider through an engagement with the trees in a park in Perth In this place, at this time Using a landscape documentary format to explore the personal relationship student farmers and gardeners have to growing Interlocutors A look at how unions and indigenous communities in South Africa and Chile are pushing back against green imperialism Voices from the green transition An exploration of the impact of living in fuel poverty in Lancashire Left Behind Research & Pedagogy Explaining abstract spatial concepts of urban geography in Hamburg. Space in Spotlight A personal exploration of ancestral pasts of slavery and the meaning of the plantation cabin as home Breathe A reflexive exploration of a street's past and present exisence in Salford Chapel Street A poetic exploration of Derrigimlagh bog, a remote landscape once transformed by technological ambition and now reclaimed by nature. Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? This film sets out to explore how two very different relatives encountered one community with their respective residential triumph and trials in mind. How do two different women find meaning in home in one gentrifying Miami community? I used my training in history, cinema and ethnography to push my thinking on a project that began with 37 ethnographic interviews. The initial outcome of these interviews was an article published in the Journal of Urban History. Pigeon Plum Crawling across a field with a macro lens, we are flung into more-than-human encounters and other ways of seeing If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant) 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes Action on Empty Homes C Action on Empty Homes collaborated with Anglia Ruskin University’s Illustration and Animation students to highlight different aspects of how the UK's wasted housing stock could be recycled to help address the UK’s chronic housing crisis. Action on Empty Homes B 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes. One of a series of five animations from Anglia Ruskin University’s Illustration and Animation students highlighting this issue Action on Empty Homes A Animation from students at Anglia Ruskin asking why the UK has so many empty homes in the midst of a housing crisis Action on Empty Homes D Housing Documenting the bodily and psychic impact of living in UK temporary accommodation Housing Distress How a college fraternity lives in an iconic Arts & Crafts landmark designed by Greene & Greene Thorsen House Following the collective action of residents in Estación Central, Santiago de Chile, as they fight to remain in their neighbourhood For Decent Housing A personal exploration of ancestral pasts of slavery and the meaning of the plantation cabin as home Breathe A reflexive exploration of a street's past and present exisence in Salford Chapel Street An exploration of the impact of the Olympic as a mega event in Paris and Vancouver Inhabiting the Mega-Event City Voices of people from Vila Autodromo favela, displaced by the 2016 Brazil Olympics Not Our Games A Community’s Stand Against Displacement 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes Action on Empty Homes C Action on Empty Homes collaborated with Anglia Ruskin University’s Illustration and Animation students to highlight different aspects of how the UK's wasted housing stock could be recycled to help address the UK’s chronic housing crisis. Action on Empty Homes B 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes. One of a series of five animations from Anglia Ruskin University’s Illustration and Animation students highlighting this issue Action on Empty Homes A Social Justice Following a childfree woman who, through endurance cycling, discovers her own “biological” clock. Emonda and I A return to childhood through the memories of Oakland Chinatown locals Where is Home? Documenting the bodily and psychic impact of living in UK temporary accommodation Housing Distress An exploration of the identities and senses of place and belonging of Latinos who have grown up in Nashville Oye, We’re From Here, Too! A look at how the weaving of the Huarpe indigenous communities in Argentina, is part of a heritage of resistance The Weaver The work of Bay Area muralists who tell stories of the Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities A Place to Call Home An exploration of the impact of living in fuel poverty in Lancashire Left Behind How does recreational use shape pro-environmental behavioural change in the North Yorkshire Moors? Fifty Voices An examination of climate justice through the lens of spatial inequality in the UK Grounded Following a childfree woman who, through endurance cycling, makes her own “biological” clock. My Bike, My Baby
