The GSSN is launching a new online autumn season with an event staged in association with the Goethe-Institut London and Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI). This reading group discussion of the novel Transit by Anna Seghers was originally scheduled as a prelude to a screening of Escape to Marseille by Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring during the Essay Film Festival in April 2020. Following the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown the screening was ... Read more

Coffee with Kafka: Film Discussion of Haneke's The Castle As part of the 'Sense of German' Culture Week run by the Department of German at the University of Aberdeen, you are warmly invited to take part in a 'Kaffee mit Kafka' (Coffee with Kafka) discussion event on Michael Haneke's film adaptation of Kafka's Das Schloss (The Castle). Watch Haneke's film adaptation of Franz Kafka's enigmatic novel Das Schloss (The Castle) here (German audio only). If you're a beginner of ... Read more

Please note that the BAFTSS 2020 Conference is now cancelled. The encounter between machine intelligence and human desire in Brenda Lien’s Call of… mixed-footage video installations (2016-18) Dr Annie Ring presents this paper as part of the panel entitled Installation Spaces and Virtual Screen Cultures. The development of artificial intelligence has enabled unprecedented growth in surveillance in the past 30 years. Data are gathered in vast quantities by smart technologies that reside ... Read more