Kodwo Eshun: Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture
Kodwo Eshun delivering the inaugural Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. 19th January 2018.
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Collective Imaginings: Legacies of the Black Audio Film Collective
In 1983, Black Audio Film Collective emerged in the British art scene with their first slide-tape films, Expeditions 1: Signs of Empire and Expeditions 2: Images of Nationality, which traced the formation of black British subjectivity borne by diasporic journey. Over the next fifteen years, Black Audio Film Collective’s lyrical, essayistic films would bring together […]
READ THIS! Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s Edited by: Sue Clayton, Laura Mulvey
The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at […]
Towards Other Cinemas: 1970’s Experimental Film, Whitechapel Gallery, Sun 17 Sep, 11.30am – 6pm
Exploring the dynamic artists’ and experiential moving image work of 1970s Britain, Towards Other Cinemas is a series of screenings and discussions, exploring the renewed interest in diverse strands of experimental film and video works made in this period. Curated by Laura Mulvey, Sue Clayton, and Claire M. Holdsworth and featuring Steve Presence, Lucy Reynolds, and Kodwo Eshun, we bring together…
John Gianvito Masterclass by Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, Mon 6 November 2017
The Centre for Film & Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with Close-Up Cinema, is pleased to host a masterclass on political cinema by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker John Gianvito. John Gianvito is a filmmaker, teacher, curator, and critic. His films include the feature films The Flower of Pain (1983) and The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001). […]
Coal not Dole (1984) Channel 4 People to People Doc strand June 1984
38 mins UK 1984 Banner Film and TV Ltd Broadcast in the Independent Film and Video slot People to People, Coal Not Dole counters the mainstream media’s coverage of the 1984 miners’ strike. The Sheffield based filmmakers cover the picket lines and demonstrations in a South Yorkshire mining community, and invite striking miners and their […]
John Akomfrah ‘from here to the elsewhere’, Artes Mundi 7 Conference January 2017
John Akomfrah on his practice with archive film at Artes Mundi 7 Conference at National Museum Cardiff, January 2017.
DOXA Documentary Film Festival May 4-14, 2017 – Chris Marker, Never Explain, Never Complain
Jean-Marie Barbe and Arnaud Lambert | France | 2016 | 144 minutes The life and work of Chris Marker could easily fill several documentary portraits, maybe even several freight trains, but directors Jean-Marie Barbe and Arnaud Lambert have kept it to a brisk 144 minutes. As our guest curator Thierry Garrel states in his introductory […]
VIDEO ESSAY: The Art of the Focus Pull by Philip Brubaker
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The Politics of Race in Contemporary Film and Digital Practice. Black Film British Cinema Conference 2017, MAY 18.
The Politics of Race in Contemporary Film and Digital Practice Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London (Day One) and Institute of Contemporary Arts (Day Two) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Sarita Malik, Brunel University Dr Kara Keeling, University of Southern California THEMES Whether we consider the rise of the concept of diversity, the on-screen representation of identities, the […]