Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
the films.
The 2017 Films
Oil + Ink
Sarah Park, Vienna Kim
Oil and water don’t mix very well. But what about oil and
ink? ‘Oil + Ink’ explores how food and language are integral elements
of a culture. While one can be shared between cultures, the other
emphasises difference. Food can be consumed and enjoyed by all,
whereas language must be invested in over time. Consequently, this
film is both familiar, intimate, but also perhaps challenging,
sometimes difficult to digest. It plays with comprehension, exclusion,
and detachment with a place that should be home.
Some of the subtitles in this film are informative. They bridge the gap
between an unknown language and understanding. Other subtitles
bastardise language and add an element of humour. For the non-
Korean speaker, this is something that one may not experience
unless one asks a Korean friend to translate. So not everyone will
understand every aspect of this film. And that’s kind of the point.
Renatus (Rebirth)
Director: Glen Kennedy, Actor: Charlie Manasseh
India Basagni
India is in her fourth year, reading Film Studies and Italian. She recently won Best Cinematography for her short film in the
60Hour Film Blitz and is currently the president of BubbleTV, St Andrews’ Television Society. India co-directed the St Andrews
Green Film Festival 2016 and worked on the short film ‘Eddie’ (2016).
Dr. Lucy Fife Donaldson
Dr. Lucy Donaldson is the director of teaching and a film lecturer for the Film Studies Department of the University of
St Andrews. Lucy Donaldson has been working on a forthcoming chapter on a series of films directed by Budd
Boetticher and on an article on the British television drama Inspector Morse for her work on the AHRC-funded project
‘Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’. In 2014, she published a monograph Texture in Film for
Palgrave Macmillan’s series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film & Television (Series Editors: Gibbs, John & Douglas Pye).
Lucy is a member of the Editorial Board of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, and co-edited Issue 6 in 2015, which
featured a special dossier on ‘moments of texture’ in film and television.
Email: lfd2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Adina Istrate
Adina Istrate accumulated industry experience writing for television before pursuing a career in film directing. In 2012
she graduated from the London Film School (MA Filmmaking) with ‘Outland,’ a Sci-Fi short that screened in a variety
of international film festivals including Encounters, Leuven ISFF and Phoenix Comicon.
Her following project, The Gender Reassignment Musical won a “Best Pitch” Award during the 2013 edition of the
European Short Pitch. In 2014 Adina was commissioned to direct a segment of RIGA 2041, a 3D Sci-Fi omnibus
feature showcasing Riga as the European Capital of Culture. Her latest short, ‘Terminally Happy,’ participated on the
Berlinale Talents Short Film Station and Clermont Ferrand’s Euro-Connections. The short was funded by Film London
and Vestnorsk Filmsenter and earned her a Best Director nomination at the Underwire Film Festival.
Her debut feature project ‘Eve’ (previously entitled ‘The Trojan Candidate’) has been developed through the
2015/2016 Venice Biennale College Cinema and Edinburgh IFF’s ‘Connections’ mentoring scheme. Last year, the
project also participated in the IFP No Borders co-production market. A recipient of a Wellcome Trust development
grant, the script was recently shortlisted for the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab. Adina is a Berlinale Talents, BAFTA
Guru Pro and Northern Film & Media alumna.
Adina splits her time between the US and London, where she is the Co-Creative Director at ToyBox Films.
Email: adinaistrate@protonmail.ch
Website: www.adinaistrate.com; www.toybox-films.com
Dr. Catherine Spencer
Catherine joined the University of St Andrews as a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art in 2014, having
previously taught at the University of Edinburgh and received her PhD from the University of York. Catherine is
currently working on a book project entitled Fieldwork: Performance Art, Social Science and Politics in the 1960s and
1970s, and is co-editing a collection of essays with Dr Jo Applin and Amy Tobin at the University of York entitled
London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent and Ephemeral Networks 1960-1980. She has published articles in the
journals Art History and Tate Papers, and regularly writes exhibition reviews for Apollo and This is Tomorrow. Her
research has been supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Carnegie Trust, the AHRC
and a Getty Library Research Grant. In 2013 she was a pre-doctoral fellow on the Terra Summer Residency in
Giverny.
Email: catherine.spencer@st-andrews.ac.uk
Special Feature
Short Film
Special thanks to Senghita Sen (Research Student and Tutor with the Film Department of St Andrews), and
(Director of Dheu) Pradipta Bhattacharyya, who gave permission to Culture Y to show this film
Culture Y
Culture Y is a film festival dedicated to premiering student-created short films that showcase the diversity and artistic
expression of the St Andrews student body. Culture Y was started in order to showcase the artistic, the creative, and the
diverse using the medium of film. The name Culture Y is a reference to the global cultural and ideological changes that
have occurred from Generation Y onward. Through the exploration of eternal questions, Culture Y seeks to be a platform
for innovative thinking in art, culture, and society. As a film festival, Culture Y wants to present a challenge to all members
of the public to explore key issues and themes in a creative way and bring together creator and audience in free dialogue.
Culture Y Team
Alexis Gostelow, Co-Founder & Producer
Alexandra Nicolae is reading Film Studies and Modern History. She has
volunteered for the Tres Court film festival in Romania from which she was
inspired to plan a short film festival in St Andrews to provide a platform for the
students here. This way they can give voice to a global and diverse
community.
Erin Powers is currently studying Film Studies and English Literature for her
degree. She has a passion for all things film and is interested in pursuing
festival curation as a career.
Culture Y would like to thank all the St Andrews student filmmakers who participated in Culture Y 2017
throughout their studies during the second semester.
Culture Y Film Festival would like to thank the Film Society of the University of St Andrews for sponsoring
this year’s showing.
Culture Y is part of the On the Rocks Festival, a festival dedicated to providing a place in which students
may express themselves creatively in the genres of comedy, art, dancing, and music.
thank you for
attending
Culture Y 2017