School of Social and Political Science

Social Science on Screen

To coincide with SPS academics showing their films at the Social Science on Screen event, part of the University's Impact Festival, this digital showcase provides another opportunity to watch their work.

Social Science on Screen celebrates social science filmmaking and the contribution it can make to creating research impact. Five academics from the across the School of Social and Political Science are presenting works ranging from drama about bodily transformation to powerful documentaries about migration, faith and democracy. They are exploring how the films and the collaborations that underpin them came into being.


Find full details of the Social Science on Screen event here
 

Watch their films here: 

 


Chocolate of Peace – Gwen Burnyeat (digital showcase) 

Directed and produced by Gwen Burnyeat and Pablo Mejia Trujíllo 

Chocolate of Peace depicts the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó’s experiences of resistance, via a journey through their processes of organic chocolate production. From the seed to the product, the cacao is the narrative thread that takes us through the community’s stories of violence and resilience, and their fight to remain neutral in the face of the Colombian armed conflict. 
 

 


Broken Wings and Maggie's ICD Story (Both within the Everyday Cyborgs and Humanimals film)
 

Broken Wings 

(Timestamp: 31:21)

Written by Siobhan Moffat and Liam Chisholme
Directed by Siobhan Moffat


Maggie’s ICD Story 

Written and performed by Maggie
Stop-motion animation by Ross Ziegelmeier 

"If we change what our bodies are, do we change who we are in the process?"  These films tell two different but similar stories about the consequences of  becoming  'less-than-human'. In Maggie's ICD Story, Maggie shares her struggles to become an ' everyday cyborg'. In Broken Wings, young people share their vision of the freedom gained from becoming a 'humanimal.'  In both stories, humanness is altered, but humanity is not.  
 

 

 

Santi Migranti

Written, directed and produced by Rishabh Raghavan, Capucine Tournilhac and Magnus Course
 
Santi Migranti (Migrant Saints) explores the intersections of religion and the politics of migration through following the work of Neapolitan artist-activist Massimo Pastore. The film focuses on the lives of both the migrants who act as models for Pastore’s project as well as the afterlives of the images themselves in an increasingly hostile anti-migrant climate. 
 

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