On #ThrowbackThursday we look back to acclaimed filmmaker Ruth Beckermann’s visit to the University of Aberdeen May Festival earlier this year. The video recording of a Q&A with Ruth Beckermann (chaired by Dr Katya Krylova), held following the screening of her award-winning film The Waldheim Waltz (2018), is now available to view: This special Director’s … Continue reading
It may be summer, and the campus may be (relatively) empty, students far away, lecturers off doing research, but we here at the GWW are hard at work, and there are a lot of exciting things brewing over the summer—some already launched and others to look out for in the coming academic year. SERG Partnership … Continue reading
On September 30th, Alex Forbes, a Ph.D. Candidate in Film & Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, presented a talk entitled “Euro-Visions: Post-89 Cinema and the (In)visibility of the Migrant.” Continue reading
In the latest GWW podcast, Dr Michael Cowan talks to Paul Flaig about the long and complex relationship between cinema and advertising. Continue reading
GWW discusses Christmas, capitalism and angels in cinema with David Law and Alan Marcus. Continue reading
GWW talks to Professor Laurence Grove about searching for the world’s first comic. Continue reading
In the latest GWW podcast, Prof. Sarah Senk discusses trauma theory and developing modes of witness in the digital age with Dr. Paul Flaig. Continue reading
Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre, Professor Ed Welch, speaks to writer and photographer John Perivolaris about a new project that engages with the photographic work of George Washington Wilson. Continue reading
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