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- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5fyqfIwGjH2fYC5fFLfdwW4
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Journalist Estelle Caswell explains the stories and sounds behind very popular songs. There are 13 episodes so far including: Smooth Jazz in the 90s; Why Pop Songs should end with a fade out; How triplet flow took over rap; the Sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars; the recording-studio mishap that shaped music in the 80s, and the most feared song in Jazz.
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- http://www.essayfilmfestival.com/about/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Festivals, Streaming/Download
Launched in 2015 by Birkbeck Institute for Moving Image, the programming of The Essay Film Festival aims to provide a focus for the current global expansion of this type of film, which is understood as a hybrid form that brings together elements of documentary and experimental filmmaking into a highly personal and often politically engaged mode of expression. Some classic exponents of the essay film are Humphrey Jennings, Harun Farocki, Patrick Keiller and Agnes Varda. The Events section of the site contains information and resources about past and present editions of the festival, including video and audio recordings of events, photographs, articles and other documents, which are of special value for anyone who is interested in this engaging mode of filmmaking. The Audio Archives present Interviews, Q&As with prominent film theorists such as Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen, and filmmakers including Pierre Creton, Jocelyn Saab, Joao Moreira Salles and Thom Andersen.
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- https://mubi.com/notebook
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Festivals, Lists, Reviews, Streaming/Download
Published daily by MUBI, Notebook offers a significant amount of free content in the form of Video Essays, Interviews, News and Reviews. There is a section of Features which includes some gems such as an exclusive translation of the one interview Jean-Luc Goddard gave about his film The Image Book (2019), an interview with director Nadav Lapid about his Golden Bear-winning film Synonyms (2019), and a discussion with German director Christian Petzold about his film Transit (2018). All the trailers for the films can be watched for free. Searching by film title via the main search tool is the most efficient way of accessing the site’s content.
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- https://www.youngvic.org/index.php/my-england
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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A collection of 14 short films exploring what it means to be English today. Each short film features an actor performing a monologue about what Englishness means now. The monologues were written by theatre makers from across England and seven were filmed on location in the regions the writers are from, including Coventry, Halifax, Luton, the Peak District, Plymouth, Middlesbrough and London. The other seven films were filmed at the Young Vic over the course of a single day and performed by people from the local neighbourhood.
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- http://merzbank.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Design, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Photography
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
A repository of artists’ online works that draw their inspiration from Kurt Schwitters. Guided by his innovations in visual arts, spoken word, typography and poetry, the project anticipates how Schwitters’ spirit might have flourished in the online world, while highlighting the debt that new forms of digital collage owe to Schwitters’ formative example. Funded by Film and Video Umbrella, the site includes newly commissioned works by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Alec Finlay, and George Barber. Their works reflect the many different facets of Schwitters’ aesthetic while exploring today’s ever expanding outlets for combining and communicating images, texts and sounds. Whether using content-sharing platforms such as Pinterest as places to find and assemble material, or experimenting with other forms of digital dissemination such as downloads and applications, the pieces demonstrate how Schwitters’ practice continues to reverberate in the present.
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- https://www.bbc.com/teach
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Education
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The new home to all the BBC classroom resources, which cover 22 subjects ranging from early years to GCSE. Major cultural events such as Black History Month or Shakespeare Season are also covered. The new site includes: Primary and Secondary Class clips, which are arranged by subject and age group; Live Lessons, half-hour curriculum-linked webcasts for the classroom; School Radio, with resources covering music, dance, history, collective workshop, literacy and maths; Terrific Scientific, which is aimed at encouraging scientific enquiry for Key Stage2; Ten Pieces, the classical music project which aims to open up the world of classical music to 7 to 14-year-old across the UK.
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- http://www.openculture.com/free-silent-films
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Lists, Streaming/Download
Curated by Open Culture, and a part of the Free Movies Online, this is a collection of 101 great silent films. Included here are well-known classics such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and The Great Train Robbery (1903), and many great obscure treasures such as The Devilish Tenant (1909), The Goddess (1934), and, Le Retour a la Raison (1923). Most of the titles are made available via the Internet Archive, a non-for-profit digital library.
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- https://www.thedolectures.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Education, Environmental Studies, Food, Social Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video
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Launched in 2007, The Do Lectures project aims to ‘create a safe space to ask better questions’. The event runs for three days once a year and is hosted on an old farm in Cardigan, West Wales. The talks are filmed and then made available for free. The lectures are organised into ten categories: Adventure, Business, Creativity, Education, Environment, Food, Future You, Social Change, Technology and Well-being.
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- https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Design, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Photography
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Known for pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican’s podcasts and videos showcase specially commissioned interviews, lectures, exclusive trailers, performance footage, short films and concert recordings. New videos are added each Friday.
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- http://publicdomainmovies.net/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Lists, Streaming/Download
This site offers a significant archive of films which are in the public domain and so can be downloaded for free. The site is organised into five categories: Feature Films, Comedy, Drama & Romance, Science Fiction & Horror, and Cartoons. Searching is not supported so the site is a bit hard to navigate.
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