Students on the MA in Audiovisual Cultures show their films / give a presentation for their final major project.

12 noon David McKenna: New Trad Fest Revisited
A poetic, psychedelic and (perhaps) apocalyptic representation of the new French folk scene.

1pm Noah Jay: Musical Utopias and Queer Historical Cinema 
In this presentation, Noah explores how three queer films use music to present an idiosyncratically queer approach to history. Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress' Sebastiane (1976), Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1996), and Paul Preciado's Orlando: My Political Biography (2023) each contain a 'musical moment' (Herzog, 2010) – a music video within a film. These musical moments transform time within the film, but they also, I argue, allow us a different view on queer history. Noah will draw on queer theory, film studies, and film music studies to demonstrate how these moments reveal the past as radically open to the present and can plot a course to the horizon of queer future (Muñoz, 2009). (Content warning: onscreen nudity) 

Noah is a writer, video essayist, and film composer whose research interests centre around the intersection of queer theory and film sound. His article and video essay on Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) was published in Sonic Scope journal last year and he has a book review published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image journal. Noah is also the editor of OffKilter: Journal of Queer Arts and Politics, a new interdisciplinary journal based at Goldsmiths which is planning on opening submissions in the autumn! 
Instagram @njay_sounds 

 2pm  Nat Georghiadou
 
3pm Liz Li Broken Again
An experimental film that investigates feminism through sound and image. London-based Korean born Liz Li is a Visual Designer and composer who loves animations and anything that would make the world collaborative and less biased. 
https://www.behance.net/lizl8 
https://soundcloud.com/lizforpulic 

PureGold: our annual festival of eclectic, innovative and exciting work coming out of the Department of Music.
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