Film Geographies Exploring the relationship between film and place Join to Watch Browse All Films Recommended An effort to capture the thingness and feel of pick-up basketball Pick-up 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) Assembled from the 16mm bin cuts of a long lost 1978 BBC documentary about the only regulated sail-powered fishery in the UK From the Culch A look at how the weaving of the Huarpe indigenous communities in Argentina, is part of a heritage of resistance The Weaver The Lightwell listens to the sounds that intensify inside a building during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic The Lightwell 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 The complexities and controversies surrounding mangrove reforestation in Senegal and The Gambia Money in the Mangroves What happens to a community when the developers move in? Consequences A man drifts through transitory spaces on the way home. After Hours An ambulant filmic ethnography of how violence appears in Istanbul presented in 8 different locations A Walk Down the Shore Kabita, a tenth grader befriends her neighborhood DVD seller Kabita 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 Borders & Migration A return to childhood through the memories of Oakland Chinatown locals Where is Home? 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 Set in Dakar, Senegal, a tracing of the aspirations and dilemmas of young people caught between staying and seeking new horizons Barça ou Barzakh 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 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 A seasonal look at the Morcom Rose Garden in California Morcom Rose Garden 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 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 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 Research & Pedagogy A reflexive exploration of a street's past and present exisence in Salford Chapel Street 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 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 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 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes. Anglia Ruskin University’s Illustration and Animation students produce five short films highlighting different aspects of how this wasted housing stock could be recycled to help address the UK’s 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 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 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 A blend of historic GIS and storytelling to reconstruct lost landscapes and archive personal narratives of displacement in Des Moines, Iowa Walking in Place – 1434 Walker St 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 1 in 25 empty properties in England could be used to provide much-needed homes Action on Empty Homes C Social Justice Documenting the bodily and psychic impact of living in UK temporary accommodation Housing Distress 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? 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 How moments of 'freezing' in Parkinson’s disease shape the interaction between the body and space in everyday situations. Please don´t freeze 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
