[Graduate-research-list] FW: Postcolonial events at Stirling

[Marta More]

Dear all
Postcolonial events at Stirling this Autumn concentrate on film. Please find information about a special event from the Global Gothic film festival - organised by the University of Stirling, macrobert theatre and the AHRC Global Gothic Network http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/ - and our roundtable on the Africa in Motion film festival - showing now at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.
We hope to see you at these events.
best wishes
Gemma

Postcolonial Events at Stirling

Autumn 2008

Special Event: Kiwi Gothic Shorts
Part of 'Hallowe'en Gothic' - a festival of International Gothic Horror films, October 31-November 2 - organised by the University of Stirling, macrobert theatre and the AHRC Global Gothic Network http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/

Sunday 2 November, 4pm
Macrobert Arts Centre
£3.95 (concessions £3.45) (booking office: 01786 466666)

Introduced by Ian Conrich
(Director of the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
There will be a discussion following the screening.

Possum (1997, Brad McGann); The Singing Trophy (1993, Grant Lahood); Kitchen Sink (1989, Alison Maclean); The French Doors (2001, Steve Ayson); Nature's Way (2006, Jane Shearer); A Moment Passing (1996, Charlie de Salis); The Hole (1998, Brian Challis); Larger Than Life (1997, Ellory Elkayem)

A dominant image of New Zealand is of a pastoral paradise, a country of harmony and tranquillity and of great natural beauty. Yet, if New Zealand can be regarded as an Eden, a principal and primordial landscape, then there can also be observed to exist within this overgrown garden, excess, disorder and darkness. Nature is beyond control, and there is a distinct sense of unease and unsettlement in many of these films where the home becomes a space of fear.

You are also invited to join the Panel Discussion on the state of the contemporary horror film (start time: 6pm, followed by wine and cheese reception).
These two further events are free and open to all.



Roundtable discussion: Africa in Motion Film Festival
Tuesday 2 December, 5pm
B2 Pathfoot Building
Free and open to all

With Lizelle Bisschoff (Director), Stefanie Van de Peer, Clare Rossouw and Dan Hammett

Africa in Motion returned for the third time (October 23-November 2 2008) to the Edinburgh Filmhouse, with a richer and more adventurous programme than ever before, including two of the continent's most celebrated filmmakers - Malian director Souleymane Cissé and Burkinabe director Gaston Kaboré. At the festival screenings are introduced by experts on African film and culture, and many are followed by discussions and Q&As with directors. Expanding the primary film focus, 2008 introduced a book and DVD stall in the Filmhouse foyer for the duration of the festival, live African music in the Filmhouse café on some evenings, an African club night at the Bongo Club, a wine tasting and book signings. The Director of the festival, along with film selectors will reflect on the achievements of the last three years, and the possible futures of African film.

Africa in Motion film festival http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/index.html


For more information about these events contact Gemma.Robinson at stir.ac.uk<mailto:Gemma.Robinson at stir.ac.uk>