Film Geographies Exploring the relationship between film and place Join to Watch Browse All Films Recommended A test interview for a project that set out to explore Doreen Massey's life as an analogue activist-scholar The âmessageâ intended was not about Doreen Masseyâs life but an argument and demonstration of the significance of geographical thought in some crucial real-world situations. Doreen selected the following âmoments.â 1. 1980s â The birth of neoliberalism â the Greater London Council and the minersâ strike. 2. 1990s â The evolution of a feminist economic strategy and nation building (regional design of a constitution) â South Africa in 1993, two years after the release of Nelson Mandela. 3. 2000s â New spatialities and the geography of democracy â Latin America Activist Geographies: Reflections From A Paper Age Why is âOldâ Damascus so appealing to European and North American tourists and their nostalgic Orientalist imaginations? Mysteries of the Orient 20:00 This film documents an island landscape in transition. Shot across seasons on the former military island of Ărö 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 Ărö, across various scales of space and time. Fusing techniques from geographical, film and sound art practices, it offers new approaches to storying âblastedâ Anthropocene landscapes. Ărö What happens to a community when the developers move in? Consequences Tales of traditional knowledge as a sustainable practice for climate change mitigation Sinai Stories A look at how the weaving of the Huarpe indigenous communities in Argentina, is part of a heritage of resistance The Weaver A man drifts through transitory spaces on the way home. After Hours Experiencing the neighbourhood from the perspective of some local pigeons and listening as they explore their dilemma - should they stay or should they go? Pigeon Coop The complexities and controversies surrounding mangrove reforestation in Senegal and The Gambia Money in the Mangroves As bulldozers raze their neighborhood, public-housing tenants reflect on decades of experiences and grapple with losing their tight-knit community to a rapidly gentrifying city. Even the Walls The Lightwell listens to the sounds that intensify inside a building during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic The Lightwell An ambulant filmic ethnography of how violence appears in Istanbul presented in 8 different locations A Walk Down the Shore 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 Exploring the relatonship between derelict urban space and advertising hoardings in Norwich Billboard Land A look at historcal practices in Suledo forest in Tanzania as an example of how pastoralism and forest conservation can coexist SULEDO Forest: Cattle, Conservation & Co-existence The story of commumity loss, pride and fractured identity when a nuclear power plant in the Lithuanian border town of Visaginas is decommissioned Decommissioning a Dream An exploration of the transformative potential of small acts of kindness in a late night cafĂ© 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 Doesnât 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 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? 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes. Anglia Ruskin Universityâs Illustration and Animation students produce five short films highlighting different aspects of how this wasted housing stock could be recycled to help address the UKâs chronic housing crisis Action on Empty Homes E Stories of the journeys, interactions, and influences of Cheshire salt over a history of extraction that has lasted over two thousand years, and continues today The Pad Middlesex Filterbeds Nature Reserve, Hackney, London, UK Drawing on ecological posthumanism and creative practice as research 'In the midst of rich meadows [âŠ]' responds to calls for new ways of paying attention to sites of historic and contemporary human and fellow being entanglements. Through my fieldwork, in which I include off site film making, I hoped to answer the question 'How can creative practice at engender a more ecological approach to heritage sites?'. Rather than âfill a gapâ I aimed to add to the emerging body of research calling for an ecological rethinking of heritage that recognises the deep entanglements of nature and culture. Drawing on this, and on the ecological posthumanism that has influenced it, I used creative practice and film making to the call for new ways of paying attention to the world and working with the vibrant entanglements of humans, fellow beings, and the places we all inhabit. In the midst of rich meadows, it was perfectly clear, I walked with company 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 Housing How a college fraternity lives in an iconic Arts & Crafts landmark designed by Greene & Greene Thorsen House Documenting the bodily and psychic impact of living in UK temporary accommodation Housing Distress Following the collective action of residents in EstaciĂłn 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 Universityâs Illustration and Animation students to highlight different aspects of how the UK's wasted housing stock could be recycled to help address the UKâs 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 Universityâs 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 âbiologicalâ 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 The story of commumity loss, pride and fractured identity when a nuclear power plant in the Lithuanian border town of Visaginas is decommissioned Decommissioning a Dream An exploration of the transformative potential of small acts of kindness in a late night cafĂ© 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 Doesnât Make Soup 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
