Volume 4 of Screenworks (2013) was edited by Dr Charlotte Crofts and associate editor, Dr Steve Presence, both based at the University of the West of England with the support of the Digital Cultures Research Centre.

We are delighted to publish the final screenwork of this volume, Stone Street, Elspeth kydd’s auto-ethnographic documentary which examines the Trinidadian diaspora through the lens of her family home in the eponymous Stone Street, Port of Spain. The film offers a moving autobiographic portrait of the Cherrie family and its branches in the US, UK and Canada, mixing home-movie Super 8 footage, photographs, musical recordings and interviews with a lyrical first-person narration. This absorbing film questions the very notion of ‘home’, moving beyond a simple record of family life to become a layered exploration of identity, history, race, representation, place and belonging. Stone Street premiered at Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, 2012 where it won the award for Cultural Diversity. We are honoured to publish the film here in memory of Elspeth who died prematurely, shortly after completing Stone Street, in April 2013. We are also indebted to Yoram Allon and Tom Cabot at Wallflower Press and editor Alisa Lebow for allowing us to reprint Elspeth’s reflective essay ‘Looking for Home in Home Movies’ in lieu of a research statement.

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Contents

Click on "see more" to view each screenwork, the research statement and anonymous peer-reviews: 

	1. On The Border (Lizzie Thynne) On the Border is an experimental biography which explores the staging of memory through a family history... see more
	2. Trails (Wyn Mason) A middle-aged man has lost his enthusiasm, he simply goes through the motions of living while something inside of him has frozen... see more
	3. U Know Them by Their Fruit (Shannon Magness) An auto-ethnographic film about an encounter between the filmmaker and her right-wing extremist cousin...  see more
	4. In Search of Pleasures Past (Les Roberts and Ryan Shand) A documentary exploring the impact of amateur filmmaking on the memories and community of coastal Merseyside... see more
	5. Unseen Women: Stories from Armagh Gaol (Jolene Mairs) Documentation of women's prison memories from all sides of the conflict in N. Ireland... see more
	6. Kamakha: Through Prayerful Eyes (Aparna Sharma) An ethnographic study of the Kamakhya Temple, an ancient fertility worship site in India’s north-eastern state of Assam... see more
	7. Stone Street (Elspeth kydd) A personal exploration of Trinidadian diaspora through the central locus of the eponymous family home... see more

Screenworks is published on a rolling basis and we publish each screenwork as soon as the reviewing process is completed. This volume is now complete.

We are now seeking submissions for Vol 5 (2014) which will not be REF-able.  If you would like to submit, please refer to the submissions guidelines where you can download the required submission form.