Screening Ideas
Screening Ideas is a research communication and community engagement program organised around free public film screenings tied to lectures, talks and panel discussions. Produced in partnership with interdisciplinary researchers from the University of Melbourne and beyond, each event presents research on the most pressing issues facing the world through the accessible and engaging medium of film.
Upcoming events
Previous talks and discussions
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'The Faculties': what is the meaning of the university institution?
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'Ali's Wedding': reframing Asian-Australia
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'Wood and Water': capturing the elements
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‘Sleep Has Her House’: experimental ecocinema in context
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‘Money Has Four Legs’: film and opposition in the Myanmar crisis
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‘The Inner Scar’: Garrel, Nico, and the Zanzibar era revisited
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'Hava, Maryam, Ayesha': women’s filmmaking practices in Afghanistan
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'Wood and Water': patience for slow cinema
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'Island of the Hungry Ghosts': trauma and narrative therapy
Academic programmers
Joel Thompson
Joel Thompson is a PhD student in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne, and a co-coordinator of the Screening Ideas program. His current writing is examining how a focus on film ambience and atmosphere can re-contextualise the subjective viewing experience. Previously, his work has studied the concept of ghosts in cinematic landscapes, utilising the notion of hauntology as a method to approach such a topic.
Alex Williams
Alex Williams is a PhD student in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne, whose current research investigates corporeal vulnerability and finitude in contemporary slow cinema. They are co-coordinator of the Screening Ideas program and a committee member of the Melbourne Cinémathèque. Their writing has appeared in Senses of Cinema and Rough Cut.
Screening Ideas is supported by the University of Melbourne Researcher Development Unit, the SSAF Grants Program, the School of Culture and Communication and the Faculty of Arts.