Patricia Zimmermann, Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies and Director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, has been appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Playlist Initiative, housed in the Screen Cultures program at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Developed in the early stages of lockdown, the Center for Screen Cultures (CSC) Playlist Initiative sought to navigate the abundance of media materials, especially with digital archives, proliferating streaming platforms, and film festivals migrating online.
In the process, it became an opportunity to give visibility to multiple perspectives and voices as media scholars, programmers, and makers provided their suggestions.
An archive of the now, this initiative offers a resource for teaching and research and a disruption of the often totalizing and exclusionary tendencies of so many lists.
Dr. Leshu Torchin is the chief curator of the initiative.
The playlists can be accessed here: https://screenculture.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/category/media-playlists/
