The Film and Visual Culture Department coordinates and is involved with an exciting range of seminars, public talks and conferences. These events include talks by leading film scholars, visits by award-winning directors and other filmmakers, and symposia and international conferences which encourage the participation of our postgraduates. You can view our Director's Cut series' webcasts on-line or clips on Youtube featuring guests such as Sir David Attenborough before a sold-out audience of 900.
A special seminar will be held on 16th June, 2pm G1 Humanity Manse with leading Hollywood Special Effects artist George Willis, whose credits include Starship Troopers, Apollo 13 and Titanic. Chilean director, Valeria Sarmiento, recently screened her latest film, the dark comedy Secretos, followed by a Q&A, organized by the Hispanic Studies Department. The Hispanic Studies Department also organized the Spanish and Latin American Film Festival held at the Belmont Cinema.
The Film and Visual Culture Department co-organized The Tartan Lens colloquium at the Aberdeen Art Gallery; hosted the Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies symposium on Within the Frame; and organized an AHRC-funded postgraduate conference, Beyond the Politics of Identity. A postgraduate conference, Rethinking Complicity and Resistance, was also held.
Students on the MA in Film and Visual Culture, and the MLitt in Visual Culture have the opportunity to take courses incorporating video production as part of their degree programmes, and to engage with international filmmakers and artists, such as Raul Ruiz and Zeigam Azizov. The latest student films were shown in May 2011 at a special event held at the new cinema complex at Cineworld Union Square.
One of the visitors to the Department is the celebrated director Pawel Pawlikowski, seen here with film students for a Director's Cut talk on campus. You can view a webcast of the event on-line, and an excerpt on Youtube.
