MAXIMUM TILT programme announced
We are excited to announce the full programme for our upcoming festival MAXIMUM TILT, programmed by Andrew Black and Anne-Marie Copestake.
Department news
Film Studies teaching celebrated at annual teaching awards
Film Studies teaching recognised at the University Teaching Excellence Awards.
Unearthing the Colonial Flower Archive
Join us for a screening of "The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing" and workshop with Theo Panagopoulos and Hannan Jones on Thursday 2 April at 11.30am-4pm at Botanic Garden in 58勛圖.
Professor Lucy Fife Donaldson to give keynote at the Zurich University of the Arts
Professor Lucy Fife Donaldson has been invited as a keynote speaker at the ZFiction.26 conference, Zurich University of the Arts.
Maximum Tilt: a festival of artists' moving image
A new three-day festival of artists’ moving image, programmed by artists Andrew Black and Anne-Marie Copestake, at the Byre Theatre on 23-25 June.
New Staff Publication: Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis, edited by Mary Hegedus and Jessica Mulvogue.
Motivated by the exigency of climate change, Cinematic Ecosystems takes cinema to be an audiovisual form whose creation and meaning are deeply connected to more-than-human worlds.
Staff and students featured in Best Video Essays of 2025
Staff and students featured in the annual Sight & Sound list of best video essays of 2025.
Silent cinema interviews
Dr Patrick Adamson interviewed about silent film and his new book, 'Projecting America'.
Promotions in Film Studies
Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson and Dr Philippa Lovatt promoted this year.
New staff publication: Rebel Without a Cause by Glyn Davis
Rebel Without a Cause was published on 13 November by BFI/Bloomsbury, as part of the BFI Film Classics series.