Great Video Lectures by Friedberg, Dupin, Rodowick, Chateau, Nowell-Smith, Stewart, Grieveson, Furstenau, Zryd, and White

Image from Grbavica: Land of My Dreams/Esma's Secret: Grbavica (Jasmila Žbanić , 2006), an example of 'global women's cinema' as explored by Patricia White in a 2008 lecture and in a forthcoming book (you can see a clip from this film about 36 minutes into White's talk, and the film's website is here)

Thanks to the website of the Permanent Seminar on the Histories of Film Theory, which Film Studies For Free featured yesterday, FSFF heard about another highly worthwhile online resource (although one that appears not to be being updated, currently): the website of Advanced Research Team for the History and Epistemology of Moving Image Study (ARTHEMIS).

ARTHEMIS is dedicated to the study of the evolution of film studies as a discipline. Based at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Concordia University and initiated by Martin Lefebvre, it gathers scholars from Canada, the United States and Europe. The group organizes, among other things, monthly seminars related to the different axes of research. [Some] are available on this site. We invite you to listen to the conferences and submit your comments. In addition, you will find on this site an evolving bibliography and book reviews.

The ARTHEMIS project also investigates the study of film and moving images by looking at three of its most important 'possibility conditions': Conceptual conditions; Institutional conditions; Material Conditions.

There are plenty of items worth exploring at ARTHEMIS. But FSFF was most struck by the series of online lectures from 2008/9 that are archived at the site. Here's the list of links to these - some truly wonderful items. FSFF particularly liked Patricia White's lecture on "Globalizing Women's Cinema". 

• Anne Friedberg, Conversation on her book "The Virtual Window" Video Lecture, 2008-09-23
• Christophe Dupin, BFI (part 1) Video Lecture, 2008-09-24 
• D.N. Rodowick, An Elegy for Theory Video Lecture, 2008-09-24 
• Dominique Chateau - Do Film Studies Form a Discipline Video Lecture, 2009-06-18
• Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, BFI (part 2) Video Lecture, 2008-09-24
• Jacqueline Stewart, The Politics of Film Archiving (part one) Video Lecture, 2009-04-14
• Jacqueline Stewart, The Politics of Film Archiving (part two) Video Lecture, 2009-04-14 
• Keepers of the frame (J.Stewart presentation) Video Lecture, 2008-12-09
• Lee Grieveson, Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct Video Lecture, 2008-09-24 
• Marc Furstenau, Design and Use Video Lecture, 2008-09-23 
• Michael Zryd, Experimental film as Pedagogical Cinema Video Lecture, 2008-10-21 
• Patricia White, Globalizing Women's Cinema Video Lecture, 2008-09-24