The Queen's College Record 2020

Reports and College Activities
(JCR Representative), and Sean Telford (MCR Representative). Thank you also to
Senior Treasurer, Owen Rees, for his guidance and encouragement, and to the
Queen’s porters, catering staff, and to all those in the Conference Office. It is with
great confidence that I hand over to next year’s leadership team, directed by Charlotte
Jefferies, and I wish them all the very best of luck.
For more information about the society and to keep up to date with future events,
please visit our website (www.eglesfieldmusic.org), Facebook page, or Instagram
(@Eglesfieldmusic).
FILMS FOR EUROPE SOCIETY
Presidents: Jack Franco and Sam Lachmann
Films for Europe has now come to the end of its second year as a Queen’s society
and we continued from the first, with weekly screenings throughout Michaelmas and
Hilary terms. Whether projected, flickering and wonky, even on one occasion in slow
motion, onto the wall of Lecture Room B or in the luxury of the Shulman Auditorium,
the films we showed attracted a varied and interesting crowd into College.
In Michaelmas we showed a variety of European films including a four film run under
the heading ‘How Italy Changed Cinema’. We could have picked four films from
almost any European country and shown them under such a heading given the
continent’s – and our Society’s – rich heritage, but Italy prevailed and it was nice to
enjoy these films, from a Dino Risi comedy film to a Fellini masterpiece, alongside a
mix of students and staff, and lots of Italian speakers.
In Hilary term we alternated showing European films with films made outside of
Europe: the USA, the Caribbean and Hong Kong among others. For some reason the
winter months of Hilary coincided with a slump in attendance of the screenings but we
never charge entry on principle – uniquely for an Oxford film society – and it’s a nice
mystery from week to week to see how many people and who will show up.
With coronavirus it may be difficult but we hope to resume screenings next year as
with such a large and varied film library at our disposal in Oxford we have a great
opportunity: to watch them on a big screen and with others interested in doing so.
Having branched out of Europe this year, perhaps we will make a leap into the twentyfirst
century this coming one but some of the highlights of our year’s screenings were:
Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ , Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, Chaplin’s City Lights,
Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie.
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