Artist Robin Price and director of CCA-Derry-Londonderry Catherine Hemelryk talk about Robin’s show Escape Sequence . commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded in CCA-Derry-Londonderry on 30 October 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info:...
Nov 27, 2019•28 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail engage in close analysis of episode 1 of Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls (first aired January 2018). (With some swearing). commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 24 September 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . Mo...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr
Costumier and clothesmaker Amy Jones talks about designing and making bespoke clothing, costumes for theatre and film, and sustainable fashion. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 25 September 2019 Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr
Historian of British culture and cinema Lawrence Napper talks to Paula Blair and Andrew Shail about his work. (With some swearing). commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 30 August 2019 at King's College London. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Simon Ward joins Paula Blair for a post-screening discussion of Transit (dir. Christian Petzold, 2018, BBFC cert. 12A). commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 21 August 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures.wo...
Oct 02, 2019•46 min
Martha Shearer talks about her research on cinema musicals and women in New Hollywood. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 30 August 2019 at BFI Southbank. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures.wordpress.c...
Sep 18, 2019•45 min
Lisa Stead talks to Paula Blair and Andrew Shail about her Reframing Vivien Leigh project. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 18 June at Newcastle University. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures.wordpre...
Aug 07, 2019•46 min
Paula Blair ventures out to the NewcastleGateshead Late Shows and speaks to Claire Murphy-Morgan ( Monkfish Productions ), Rachel Brook ( Good Space ), Pauline Taylor and Alice Stewart ( Room For You ), Mariae Smiarowska and Jenni McDermott about what they were up to in Commercial Union House. Topics include diversity, inclusion, accessibility, performance, art and health, collaboration and community. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncom...
Jun 26, 2019•31 min
This episode covers the Silent Divas screening of Italian silent film Assunta Spina (dirs. Francesca Bertini & Gustavo Serena, 1915) with live score from Italian folk band The Badwills at Tyneside Cinema on 12 May 2019. This was accompanied by documentaries from the BFI archive shown in association with Invisible Women detailed in the episode by Rachel Pronger (Film Programme Coordinator, Tyneside Cinema). Andrew Shail lends some early cinema knowledge, Shona Thomson ( A Kind Of Seeing ) tal...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Artist Jacqueline Wylie talks about her practice. Topics include craft, ageing, photography, postgraduate study, social class and Northern Ireland. There's some swearing and mild references to pornography and fetishes. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 19 February 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript ...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Coinciding with the publication of his new book, Andrew Shail tells Paula Blair about his research on the origins of the film star system centring on French performer Max Linder. Contains references to suicide and death. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 8 March 2018 and 25 April 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated tr...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Performance artist Elvira Santamaría Torres talks to Paula Blair about her work. Includes references to issues arising from conflict, violence, murder and migration. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 13 & 14 February 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for ...
May 01, 2019•53 min
Performance artist Sinéad O’Donnell talks through her Crossing Permissions exhibition at Millennium Court Arts Centre , Portadown, Northern Ireland – many thanks to Arts Director Jackie Barker and Gallery Technician Dermot Burns. Topics include feminism, audiences, geography, spontaneity, intuition, sea crossings, migration, conflict, suppression, cultural difference and language. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license...
Apr 17, 2019•34 min
Paula Blair talks to Rebecca Harrison about her research on code in the Star Wars franchise, cinema and railways, and teaching media from feminist and postcolonial perspectives. Recorded on 16 January 2019 at Newcastle University. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures.wordpress.com/ Early releases and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/a...
Apr 03, 2019•37 min
Paula Blair reads her essay on Damien Hirst's major 2017 exhibition in Venice. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded in February 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . A link to the published version will be provided when ready. audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures...
Mar 20, 2019•1 hr
Paula Blair makes an announcement about the Reclaim the Frame project and upcoming events surrounding The Kindergarten Teacher (dir. Sara Colangelo, BBFC cert. 12A, 2018). Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/avcultures . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 07, 2019•5 min
Artist Sally Madge talks to Paula Blair about her work and life as a practitioner. Topics include performance, installation, site-specificity, collecting, ageing, being peripheral, landscapes, the domestic and notions of value. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 1 February 2019 in Sally's kitchen at No. 4 St Thomas Crescent. Edited by Paula Blair using...
Mar 06, 2019•42 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail have a post-viewing discussion of Mary Queen of Scots (dir. Josie Rourke, BBFC cert. 15, 2018). With references to violence and sexuality. Plot details mentioned throughout. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 25 January 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcult...
Feb 20, 2019•49 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, BBFC cert. 15, 2018). With references to violence, death, body horror, suicide and self-harm. Science nerdery and spoilers abound. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 10 January 2019. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com S...
Feb 06, 2019•52 min
For their first recording of 2019, Paula Blair and Andrew Shail talk through their Netflix viewings over the mid-winter holidays, paying particular attention to Netflix-backed films The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dirs. Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2018) and Birdbox (dir. Susanne Bier, 2018). Includes references to violence, death and minor swearing when quoting from the films. Spoilers abound. commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3...
Jan 23, 2019•1 hr 20 min
Paula Blair talks to artists Sarah-Joy Ford and Juliet Fleming about their Hard Craft exhibition in Vane gallery, Nov-Dec 2018. The featured music is commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 6 December 2018 in Vane. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . Mo...
Jan 09, 2019•54 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss The Little Stranger (dir. Lenny Abrahamson, 2018, BBFC cert. 12A) and its adaptation from Sarah Waters’s novel of the same title (published 2009). Topics include historical fiction, emotional abuse, social class, violence, post-World War II England and the paranormal. Recorded on 23 September 2018. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Sign up for our free monthly newsletter. More inf...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail have a post-screening discussion of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (dir. Desiree Akharan, 2018, BBFC cert. 15) about a teenage girl in the USA who is sent to a gay conversion camp. Involves topics such as religion, emotional abuse and self-harm. Recorded on 14 September 2020. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures.wordpress.com/ Early releas...
Oct 03, 2018•55 min
Paula Blair chats with activist-artist Emma Campbell about her video and photography work alongside her activism as co-director of Alliance for Choice . The discussion involves the need for access to abortion where this was still illegal in Northern Ireland at the time of recording, the travel involved, politics, and ongoing activism for abortion rights. Recorded on 30 July 2018. Edited by Paula Blair. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . Sign up for our free monthly newsletter. audiovi...
Sep 19, 2018•43 min
Paula Blair reads her essay on the disappeared in the film Nostalgia for the Light (dir. Patricio Guzmán, 2010) and the video installation Ancient Ground (dir. Willie Doherty, 2011). Recorded on 2 September 2018. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . The chapter can be purchased at https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004323056/B9789004323056-s013.xml Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More info: https://audiovisualcultures.wordpress.com/ Early releases and bonus ...
Sep 05, 2018•50 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail talk about screenings of Hindi films in England, focusing on Gold: The Dream That United Our Nation (dir. Reema Kagti, 2018, BBFC cert. 12A). Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 22 August 2018. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . Sign up for our free monthly newsletter . More i...
Aug 29, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Paula Blair and Andrew Shail step up to Patron Kristie Smith's challenge to watch some horror with Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017, 15). Discussion involves racism, violence, slavery and emotional manipulation. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 31 July 2018. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . Sign up f...
Aug 22, 2018•56 min
Film doctors Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss Skyscraper (dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2018, BBFC cert. 12A). Includes references to 9/11, terrorism, violence, burning buildings and amputation. There's also some chat about cinemagoing, other films connected with the genre, themes and actors, and addressing issues around representation in mainstream film. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.cc...
Aug 14, 2018•48 min
Film doctors Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss Leave No Trace (dir. Debra Granik, 2018, BBFC cert. PG), cinema audiences and other elements of film and visual culture at the Tyneside Cinema. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 4 July 2018. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.co...
Aug 08, 2018•38 min
Film doctors Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss Selma (dir. Ava DuVernay , 2014, BBFC cert. 12). Includes mentions of racial discrimination, violence and sex. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded on 1 & 2 July 2018. Edited by Paula Blair using Audacity. Auto-captioned video . Automated transcript . audiovisualcultures@gmail.com Join my Show on Patreon...
Aug 01, 2018•59 min
