Join us on a visual trip from Scotland around the world at Summerhall Cinema on Tuesday 10 May at 14:30 with a screening of a selection of creative documentaries followed by Q&A and debate with the filmmakers, and an informal gathering afterwards at the Royal Dick. Save the date!
When? Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:30-16:30
Where? Summerhall cinema (map), Edinburgh (next to the Meadows).
How much? FREE - register on Eventbrite.
Accessibility: there is step-free access to the cinema if needed. Please note that it’s quite different from the main entrance to the building as there are steps up to the main reception plus a few down to the cinema entrance (please contact aida.vallejo@ehu.eus if you need to use this option).
Subtitles: All films are subtitled in English. Aditionally, some of them have captions.
Meet the filmmakers and stay with us: The filmmakers will be in the cinema to answer your questions after the screening. Audience members are invited to stay afterwards and join us at the bar next to the cinema to go on with the discussion. You can also stay at Summerhall until late listening to folk live music and dancing Scottish traditional dances with the Edinburgh Ceilidh Club. See you there!
Screening:
A selection of short documentaries developed at the Scottish Documentary Institute in the last decade.
Find out how documentary makers based in Scotland explored different creative ways to look at reality. From first-person stories to experiments with animation, the films expand the artistic boundaries of documentary towards new forms of non-fiction.
From the streets of Glasgow to Algeria and Turkey and back to the North East Coast of Scotland, join us in a visual trip around time and space that reflects on contemporary issues that include women's position in society, class division, global mobility and cultural diversity in an interconnected world, or alternative perceptions of reality.
The documentaries relate to research topics developed at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, including Scottish culture, women's position in society and decoloniality, among others.
Organiser:
Aida Vallejo, research fellow at IASH (Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities), University of Edinburgh. The screening is an outreach activity of the IDFmap research project, that looks at the role of the Scottish Documentary Institute in promoting documentary cultures and networks.
Funded by the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.
Check for info and updates: https://www.ehu.eus/ehusfera/dokuleku/idfmap-project/screenings/