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Screenworks
We are delighted to publish the fourth screenwork of Vol 4, Les Roberts and Ryan Shand’s In Search of Pleasures Past, a nostalgic oral history project which documents amateur filmmakers’ reflections on the reception of two films about New Brighton, a seaside resort on the Wirral. The film operates on more than one level, on the one hand it is a paean to the past - both the forgotten pleasure park celebrated in the first film, Fair Play (1966) but long gone by the second, Pleasures Past (1974) - and a eulogy to the residual medium of Super 8mm film on which they are both recorded. On the other hand, it is a meditation on amateur filmmaking and its role in the local community, documenting the research process of the AHRC Mapping the City in Film project, University of Liverpool, from which the film arose. The mix of interviews with the cine club members and sequences of their footage from the original films enables a thought-provoking dialogue between past and present, “this is a film about a film. It is also about a place, its decline and the poignancy of memory”.
http://www.jmpscreenworks.com/?pid=vol4
Volume 4 of Screenworks (rolling publication 2013) is edited by Charlotte Crofts and Associate Editor, Steve Presence, both based at the University of the West of England with the support of the Digital Cultures Research Centre.
Call for submissions
Vol 4 is no longer accepting submissions, and the full Volume will be completed by the end of July 2013. Vol 5 is open for submissions, but will not be REF-able. The first deadline is Monday 2 September 2013.
For more information on the submissions process and the submission form please go to: http://www.jmpscreenworks.com/page/submissions
Many thanks,
Charlotte Crofts and Steve Presence
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