5.40 – 7pm | Thursday 2 February
Stanford House, 65 High Street, Oxford
The discussion begins at 5.40pm. A screening of the film will take place at 4pm and all are welcome.
Pete Travis, Dredd (2012) and Ernie Gehr, Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991)
Film Discussions Series, Part II
Speakers
Michael Piggott, Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, University of Warwick
Peter Wynn Kirby, Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Films about cities are both part of modern urban experience and a mode of our reflecting on that experience. Over the last century both cinema and cities have been in flux. What have we learned from films that explore cities? About cities? About films? About tradition? About modernity? About fantasy? About reality? About beauty? About ugliness? About living? About ourselves? About making sense or nonsense of any or all of these? In this series of Film events, the Oxford Forum and Stanford University Centre in Oxford are showing entrancing films about cities, followed by dialogues and discussion.