FILMS: Peter Travis, Dredd (2012) and Ernie Gehr, Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991)
Speakers
Michael Piggott, Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, University of Warwick
Peter Winn-Kirby, Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
Chair
Roxana Baiasu, Associate Member of the Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at the Stanford Center in Oxford
The Discussion is preceded by a film showing at 4:00 pm at the Stanford House, but the films are also available online.
Films about cities are both part of the modern urban experience and a mode of 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 reality? About beauty? About ugliness? About living? About ourselves? About making sense of any of all of these?