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Ethnographic Film Series
Govan Young documents schoolchildren from Govan, in Glasgow, learning of the area's important but largely unknown medieval history. Comrades together-apart / Camarades junts-i-a-banda was made by two academics working at distance, one in Catalonia, one in Scotland. The film was shot and edited during the Covid-19 lockdown when we were forced to stay within our borders, and, at times, within our own homes. The film combines footage of contemporary political protests and movements in our respective countries and reflects on actually existing colonial processes both within and outwith the higher education system, while including phone footage of everyday life during this moment.
David Archibald is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. His academic work includes the monograph The war that won’t die: the Spanish Civil War in cinema, which was published by Manchester University Press in 2012. In addition to work in Film Studies, David has published numerous essays on various aspects of Scotland’s cultural and political landscape. He is Chair of the Board of Document Film Festival and a Trustee of Glasgow Film Theatre.
After studying an MA in Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a FORD FOUNDATION fellowship, Armando Bautista started writing and producing films. He received different grants by the Mexican Nacional Council for Arts and Culture (CONACULTA) to write theatre plays, children stories and film scripts. He was the main producer for the micro-budget feature drama film, In Times of Rain, which recently won the award for Best Emerging Feature at the Oaxaca FilmFest.
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- Hosted by
- Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- MacRobert Building, MR051