Global Audiovisual Archiving

Gelao, Sara

From the Archive, no. 3, vol. 7September 19, 2022<September 22, 2022

Global Audiovisual Archiving

Sara Gelao

Sara Gelao reports on the Eye International Conference 2022, "Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices," where delegates discussed new initiatives to safeguard audiovisual heritage across geopolitical divides.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 16, 2020<January 22, 2023

Copying and COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba

Laura-Zoë Humphreys

In the first of our global reports on COVID-19, Laura-Zoë Humphreys shows how the disruption of person-to-person media distribution networks has affected urban sociality in Havana, Cuba.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4November 1, 2019<January 28, 2023

The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories

Ranjani Mazumdar

In this third and final part of our Slums series, Ranjani Mazumdar discusses two recent films that have created "embodied cartographies" of Mumbai's Dharavi.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 17, 2019<January 28, 2023

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

Elmo Gonzaga

In the second part of our Slum series, Elmo Gonzaga probes the ethics of journalistic, cinematic, and gamified images of informal settlements in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.