Description: Screenworks is the online peer-reviewed publication of screen media practice research edited by Dr Charlotte Crofts, and associate editors Dr Elan Gamaker, Alex Nevill and Will DiGravio. Published by University of the West of England.
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Search for: Search Button - navigation - Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag. Please upgrade it. Volume 13.1 ISSN 2514-3123 10.37186/swrks.13.1
We are delighted to publish the two final pieces in Volume 13.1. Jenna Ng and Oliver Tomkins’s video essay, The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal explores the implications of highly realistic images that appear, interact and socialise with human users, often seemingly “live” in real-time. Through readings of film and media theory, archival research, textual readings (across paintings, digital art, cinema, performance, VR, apps and architecture) and media a
Jill Daniels’ oppositional essay film Resisters is a poetic and activist multi-faceted audiovisual text evoking the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, the Marxist revolutionary figure who was assassinated in 1919. Set in Berlin, through a fragmentary narrative style and found footage, Daniels’ work is a call to the duty of remembering the historic figure of Luxemburg and her inspiring philosophical, political and activist engagement. Using hybrid cinematic strategies of critical realism and poetic re-imagining, the