Film Geographies Exploring the relationship between film and place. Join to Watch Browse All Films Recommended As a child, Ivanka was chosen by fairy women for the special task of entering the realm of the dead to discover the future Imam pesmu da vam pevam (I Have a Song to Sing You) 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 Testimonies of unaccompanied young people as they navigate âthe systemâ in the UK Stories too big for a case file 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 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 Shot through a computer screen, Bridges (Bosnia 20) forces the viewer to witness the war in Bosnia and its aftermath via-the-gaze of an unknown spectator, re-presenting images of war in a digital age. Bridges (Bosnia 20) UK In contrast to mainstream film representations of dementia care that often focus on caregiver burden and a resulting poor quality of life, One Day When We Were Young shows how crafting together uncovers an alternative narrative of care that is reciprocal, strengthening, and liberating. 'With the TV switched off and contents of a sewing kit arranged on a wooden tray, this signals that the living room has temporarily been transformed into a well-making space.' Part of The Power of Making: Material Affect by Hackney and Rana (2016). Selected Reviews This film is a really good example of how video can be used beyond purely a visual record of the research activity. Here, in documenting the research process and analysing this visual âdataâ, the film also reveals new insights for the research as well as a mode of dissemination. The camera did not judge but floated around using a particularly effective positionality. There was a universality expressed through the focus of the camera on crafting activity, and the different ages of the subjects. I did not need to know the location of the film it could have been anywhere. One Day When We Were Young Life in the Indian Himalayas is one of hard agricultural labour. But in a village 2500m high, under the peaks of Nanda Devi, an energetic younger generation seek more Lifelines An ambulant filmic ethnography of how violence appears in Istanbul presented in 8 different locations A Walk Down the Shore Tales of traditional knowledge as a sustainable practice for climate change mitigation Sinai Stories A photographic project exploring how queer lives move through and leave traces in suburban spaces Queer Journeys Through Suburbia 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 Following a courier on their night-time newspaper delivery in Vienna, Austria Daily News 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) 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 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 In the AndeanâAmazon Piedmont of Colombia, an Indigenous community uses phones, drones, and trail cameras to reclaim the Amazon Under the Canopy 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? 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 How does recreational use shape pro-environmental behavioural change in the North Yorkshire Moors? Fifty Voices
