Film and TV Matters

Two students from the MA Film Programming and Curating recently had an opportunity to test their ideas on curating moving image works at the Zabludowicz Collection. The recently closed show In the Shadow of Forward Motion (Jan. 17 – Feb. 24, 2019) at the private gallery and exhibition space in London featured contributions by the FMACS MA students Nicole Atkinson and Dmitry Frolov, who collaborated with peers from Central St. Martins and the Chelsea College of Art as part of…

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Ignorance When I first heard Rachael Low’s name, it was one which escaped me. Surprisingly so given my keen interest in British cinema of the 1930s. I had understood that British film history was dominated by men like Alexander Korda, Cecil Hepworth and Ernest Lindgren, despite a few twinkling stars like Jessie Matthews and Anna Neagle. Who was this mysterious woman?   My intrigue increased when I discovered a BFI webpage, in which prominent British film academics commented on Low’s contributions,…

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Perhaps it’s too much to ask from a work of art some sense of direction in the world, some kind of fail proof compass that will get you from door to door. But then again, a piece of art may hand one out to you even when you’re not asking for it. On a recent morning, visiting the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, Charlotte Prodger’s warm, textured 32-minute video BRIDGIT (2016), this year’s winner, seemed to speak from a…

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That Lotte Eisner (1896-1983) has a place in film history is no surprise, but over the years it has become increasingly difficult to define exactly that what might mean. Mostly remembered as a mentor and champion of the New German Cinema, and known to film scholars for her influential study of German cinema of the 1920s, The Haunted Screen (1952/1969) and further books on F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang, the longtime archivist of the Cinémathèque française lived through the rise…

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