Welcome to Film & Screen Media
Film and Screen Media at University College Cork is a vibrant community of lecturers, researchers and graduate students. Led by internationally recognised experts, and with a thriving visiting speakers and guest practitioners component, our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees explore the history of filmmaking through the study of films from around the world, from the birth of cinema to the age of the Internet.
News and Events
10 Mar 2025
SPOTLIGHT ON OUR QUERCUS SCHOLARS!
The Department of Film and Screen Media is delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to Laura Fioretti (BAFX2) and Sean Leahy (BAFX3), who were awarded prestigious Quercus College scholarships for the academic year 2024-5.
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26 Feb 2025
Mediating the Colonial Archive: Lecture and Screening of Unsettling Genealogies. 4th March @4-6 pm, FSM Auditorium, Kane Building B10B
When does the (colonial) past become the past? And how do we interpret its legacies in postcolonial societies? What is the role of colonial archives in keeping the memory of the past alive?
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25 Feb 2025
The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing: Masterclass and Screening with filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos, Fri 7th March, @1pm
In this masterclass, filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos will guide us through his process of reclaiming archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, made in the 1930s and 1940s by a Scottish missionary who had decided to film the floral splendour of the Holy Land.
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19 Feb 2025
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Issue 28 Now Available Online
Issue 28 - Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals Edited by Estrella Sendra and Sheila Petty
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