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Cinema has helped 'entrench' gender inequality in AI

13 Feb 2023

Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men.

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‘The greatest director in the world right now’ begins residency at Centre for Film and Screen

04 May 2018

One of Argentina’s and Latin America’s pre-eminent filmmakers begins a 16-day residency at Cambridge’s Centre for Film and Screen from tomorrow (May...

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Still from Fire at Sea, the Oscar-nominated documentary by Gianfranco Rosi

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker comes to Cambridge

09 May 2017

Hailed as “one of the most important artists in any medium”, the award-winning and Oscar-nominated Italian documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi is...

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Screenshots from D.W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909)

Grand designs: the role of the house in American film

27 May 2016

It’s black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith’s 1909 classic The Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes...

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Still image from the Ukrainian documentary 'Twilight'

Bringing Ukraine to the screen

06 Nov 2015

Over the past eight years, the University of Cambridge has become Britain’s pre-eminent showcase for documentary and feature films from and about...

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All the President's Men

Classic tales of intrigue and paranoia – coming to a cinema near you!

31 Jan 2014

Don’t miss the chance to see films that explore humankind’s capacity for deception. Showing at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse in February and March...

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Terrace Gardens

Voicing the Garden

16 Dec 2013

The Botanic Garden’s year-long oral history project celebrates the launch of the project website with a special screening of archive and new films at...

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Pitoti engraving, Valcamonica valley

Major motion pictures from our prehistoric past

17 May 2013

Cambridge archaeologists are illuminating some of the oldest graphic art of the past, by applying some of the most advanced graphic technology of the...

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A screenshot from the 1971 British gangster film Villain, starring Richard Burton. Dir. Michael Tuchner

Cinematic geographies of Battersea

07 May 2013

Research is combining film ‘archaeology’ with digital technology to create a new approach to ‘sites of memory’ for the London borough of Battersea...

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Cinema seats

Darwinian ideas explored on the big screen

21 Oct 2012

Charles Darwin’s relevance to today’s society will be explored in a four film series at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse from Monday.

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Gurkha recruits awaiting inspection c.1950. The never-before-seen footage has been released to mark the launch of the Amateur Cinema Studies Network, http://amateurcinemastudies.org.

Candid camera

19 Jun 2012

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its...

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Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats

Beyond the box office: are industry experts getting the movie business wrong?

15 Jun 2012

What is it that makes a movie successful? A faculty member from the Cambridge Judge Business School believes that the industry and experts are...

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