New Thinking: Films and Research
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Melting glaciers, cacophonous refugee camps, voices in heads, bathroom altercations and indigenous communities in crisis are the subjects of this year's AHRC Research In Film Awards.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to researchers and filmmakers from the winning films, which are:
Inspiration Award: ‘To Be A Marma’ - Ed Owles Best Doctoral of Early Career Film: ‘Voices Apart’ - David Heinemann Best Climate Emergency Film: ‘A Short Film About Ice’ - Adam Laity Best Animated Film: ‘Bathroom Privileges’ - Ellie Land Best Research Film: ‘Shelter without Shelter’ - Mark E Breeze
You can hear Tom Scott Smith discussing his research into refugee shelters in this episode of New Thinking called Refugees https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k37n
This episode of Free Thinking is put together in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI as one of a series of discussions focusing on new academic research also available to download as New Thinking episodes on the BBC Arts & Ideas podcast feed. You can find the whole collection here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
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| 0:32.3 | Hello, melting glaciers, cacophonous refugee camps, voices and heads, bathroom altercations and |
| 0:39.6 | indigenous communities in crisis. I'm Eleanor Rosamond Baraklough and welcome to this episode |
| 0:46.0 | of New Thinking, part of our series in the Arts and Ideas podcast which looks at new research |
| 0:51.5 | in UK universities. I'm talking to the winners of the Arts |
| 0:55.5 | and Humanities Research Council's Research in Film Awards. Last year, we were celebrating the |
| 1:01.7 | best in academic filmmaking on a red carpet. This year, it's a virtual red carpet, a tangle of |
| 1:08.9 | online connections with the researchers behind this year's |
| 1:12.6 | five winning teams. During the ceremony, live streamed, of course, the AHRC team emphasized |
| 1:19.2 | how important film has become as a medium to communicate in socially distanced times. |
| 1:26.4 | The first film is the winner of the Inspiration Award, |
| 1:30.4 | recognising a film produced in the UK |
| 1:32.5 | that has been inspired by the arts and humanities |
| 1:35.6 | and the exciting and surprising places that they can reach. |
| 1:40.4 | The winner is to be a marma, |
| 1:43.0 | a collaboration between anthropologist for Hanna Hock, |
| 1:46.4 | director Ed Owls and producer Alison Ruper. |
| 1:50.1 | The film is a portrait of the Marma people, a minority indigenous people living in the hill tracts of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, |
| 1:58.7 | as their lives are put under pressure by climate change triggered migration. |
| 2:07.6 | I feel sometimes I'm different of another princess. |
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