Gleaners, devils and pits: Bolivian mining community films Film screening and talk

One of the most remarkable experiments in radical film pedagogy and media proletarianisation in Latin America cinema is the Miner's Film Workshop, held in Bolivia in 1983. The resulting 13 films – that were thought lost for decades – have been recently found in Paris, together with the entire administrative archive of the workshop.

An international research team is currently working on preserving these primary sources and developing a digital restitution project in Bolivia. Join invited speaker Miguel Errazu, of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and event convener Isabel Seguí, from the Department of Film Studies and St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies, for a presentation on the historical protagonism of women in the workshop.

The discussion will delve into problematic issues related to the preservation and archival activation process in the present and, for the first time in the UK, we will have the opportunity to watch two of the shorts. Come along for a rare visual treat and some academic self-criticism.

Organised by the Centre for Screen Cultures (CSC), the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS), and the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS).