November 21, 2020
Online workshop
Subtitling World Cinema Workshop: Four International Screenings and a Round Table Event Information. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy, Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. In 2020, the festival theme is ‘New Worlds’. For this occasion, the University of Exeter has organized a workshop on subtitling world cinema.
Subtitling World Cinema Workshop: Four International Screenings and a Round Table
Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy, Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. In 2020, the festival theme is ‘New Worlds’. The festival will run from November 12 to 22. The core festival objectives are:
- to demonstrate the value of humanities research to society in the UK and globally;
- to encourage, support and create opportunities for humanities researchers to engage with non-specialist audiences;
- to embed and join together public engagement activities in the humanities across the higher education (HE) sector;
- to demonstrate the relevance of the humanities to everyday life.
Join the festival to watch an exciting array of four films from across the world, newly subtitled into English by University of Exeter MA Translation Studies students, or recently subtitled professionally.
The details of the four movies are as follows:
- Film 1: Life Goes On (language: Spanish with English subtitles, Fernán Gómez, 1963)
- Film 2: A Door to the Sky (language: Arabic with English subtitles, Benlyazid, 1985)
- Film 3: Shanghai Queer (language: Chinese [Mandarin] with English subtitles, Xiangqi, 2019)
- Film 4: Melmaridè (language: Italian with English subtitles; Bozzarelli & Daneluzzo, 2019)
- Roundtable discussion: with film-makers, academics, translators, film restorers and MA students who subtitled the films 17:30 - 18:30 GMT/UTC
For more info you can visit this webpage.
