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- Link
- http://merzbank.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Design, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Photography
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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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- Link
- https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/disabled-britain-on-film
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
A free collection of over 170 films on BFI Player exploring the representation of disabled people in film over the last century from across the UK. Highlights include: Artificial Limbs (1916), Zero Hour (1928), Y Gwr O Gwr Yr Aran (1978), Ian Dury (1983), Hands Solo (2009), Trapped Rhythms (2016) and The Maske (2017). The collection has been grouped into five themes: Care or Cure?, Body Politic, Fundraising and Charity, Up Close and Personal, and Nothing About Us Without Us.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://soundcloud.com/nofilmschool
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
A collection of interviews produced by the online magazine No Film School. The strength of these podcasts comes from their ability to take on some of the biggest names in independent film and balance them out with interviews with people who are just starting to get their work out. Episodes take the form of ‘How to’ and cover a wide range of subjects, from How to Become Your Actor’s Dream Director (Mike Leigh), How to Make a Short Film for only $4.50, How to Shoot a Surrealist Film (Yorgos Lanthimos), How to Make a Masterpiece of Your Mistakes (Daniel Schmidt and Gabriel Abrantes), How to Move from Producer to Director (Cristina Gallego), to How to become a Top Notch Sound Designer.
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- Link
- http://www.openculture.com/free-silent-films
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Design, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Photography
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- https://www.filmspotting.net/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Launched in 2005, this is now a weekly film podcast and radio program from Chicago hosted by Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen. The show starts with a review of a recently released film, followed by listeners’ feedback and then the segment "Massacre Theater", which is a weekly contest that has the hosts performing short scenes of dialogue from various films, with a prize going to one listener who correctly guesses which film it was from. The show ends with the "Top Five" section, which sees each host picking their top five movies that pertain to a certain topic for the week. Episodes available go back to 2012 and can be accessed under the Show Archive section; there is also a Marathons section, where the hosts review six to eight films from a particular genre or director, and a Lists space which groups films under, among others, Top 5, To 20 of the 2000-2009 decade, Top 10s and Year-by-Year lists.
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- Link
- https://thenextpictureshow.tumblr.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A biweekly roundtable examining how classic films inspire and inform modern movies. Hosted and produced by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias, each episode, which last around one hour- takes a deep dive into a classic film and its legacy in part one, then compares and contrast it with a modern successor in part two. The list of pair of films compared is now significant and include Sorry to Bother You/Putney Swope; The Chicago Way/Steve McQueen’s Widows; A Star is Born/Bradley Cooper/George Cukor; Blackklansman/Malcom X; All the President’s Men/Spotlight; Battle Royale/The Hunger Games Series; Toy Story/ The Good Dinosaur; Aguirre, The Wrath of God/ The Revenant.
Other Online
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- Link
- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ghibliotheque-a-podcast-about-studio-ghibli/id1417125932?mt=2
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcasts exploring Studio Ghibli films. Regular hosts Michael Leader-a self-confessed Ghibli fanatic- and Jake Cunningham- a Ghibli newcomer- watch a different Ghibli film each week and then assess the work. The 30-minute episodes follow a similar format: Leader starts with a brief history which covers the basics about the director, how the film was financed and its release; Cunningham then offers a critical perspective, and afterwards a guest joins them to offer comments or give an interview. Titles covered so far include Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbour Toroto, Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke, Only Yesterday and Howl’s Moving Castle. Available via iTunes, Spotify and Acast.
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- Link
- http://publicdomainmovies.net/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Lists, Podcasting
Created in 2014 by film journalist, writer and lecturer, Karina Longworth, this podcast broadcast the results of different research projects about the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. There are some 130 episodes so far, each lasting around 30 minutes; personalities portrayed include well-known stars such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando and Kim Novak and lesser known actors such as Frances Farmer, Val Lewton, Kay Francis and Theda Bara. The site can be easily searched via the Archive section and the New Episodes tab. There is also a Film Club which presents the host’s must-see films and other films related to one or more individual episodes of the podcast, and the Book Club or mini-reference library which offers a guide to all the books used to make the programmes.
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