‘Screen and the Global Circulations of Film Theory’ Dossier Edited by Sarah Cooper
Following the AHRC-funded Global Circulations of Film Theory project which ran from January 2023-October 2024, Sarah Cooper has edited a…
Film Studies Research Seminars 2026-2027
Wednesdays, 5-7pm, KIN 205 (Nash Lecture Theatre, formerly K2.31). Semester 1 28 September 2026 (Monday, 5pm, Bush House SE 1.05…
BFI Key Scholar Lecture with Janaína Oliveira: “The time it takes to march”: Pan-Africanism and beauty in Sarah Maldoror’s unapologetic cinema
The Key Scholar Lecture is a programme presented in partnership with the Department of Film Studies, King’s College, London, and…
Ed Webb-Ingall’s Film ‘Dolphin Close’ to be shown at HELLO EARTH Launch Party
HELLO EARTH Launch Party 19 September 2026 | 5.00 PM–9.00 PM | Crossness Pumping Station Event description: HELLO EARTH will be…
Ed Webb-Ingall co-curating screening series at Whitechapel Gallery, ‘LCVA presents: Community Action, Community Arts, Community Festival: From the Basement Project to The Big Show (1972–1976)’
LCVA presents: Community Action, Community Arts, Community Festival: From the Basement Project to The Big Show (1972–1976) The London Community…
Ed Webb-Ingall is artist in residence at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Ed Webb-Ingall is taking part in a residency exploring the act of withdrawal as a means of engaging more fully…
Victor Fan Hosts Masterclass with Stanley Kwan
As part of the Graden Cinema’s season on the Hong Kong Golden Age 1985-1997, Victor Fan hosted a sold-out masterclass…
Victor Fan, ‘Interbeing: Affective Release and Kinship in The Last Dance’
Victor Fan, “Interbeing: Affective Release and Kinship in The Last Dance,” Arbor – Ciencia Pensamiento y Cultura 202, no. 815, https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2026.815.3105. Abstract: Po •…
Victor Fan, ‘Jinpa: Embodied Temporalities and Interbeing’
Victor Fan, “Jinpa: Embodied Temporalities and Interbeing,” in Radical Embodiment on Film, ed. Louis Bayman and Davina Quinlivan (Bloomsbury, 2026), 49–61. Book abstract:…
Victor Fan, ‘Interbeing: Ecological Nondiscrimination and Its Mediatedness in Snow Leopard’
Interbeing: Ecological Nondiscrimination and Its Mediatedness in Snow Leopard,” in Asian EcoMedia: Environmental Narratives in Film, Anime, and Videogames, eds. Farshad Zahedi and…
Victor Fan, ‘Blue Island: Toward a democratic sociality through affective dissonance’
Blue Island: Toward a Democratic Sociality through Affective Dissonance,” Journal of Chinese Cinema (June 19, 2026). Abstract: In Jauwat zi dou (Youyu zhi dao in Mandarin…
Erika Balsom Curating Cinestesia, Experimental Section of the Espoo Film Festival
Cinéstesia is a new initiative by Espoo Ciné dedicated to the crossroads between cinema, the visual arts, and the rich,…
Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, María Palacios Cruz and Ben Rivers (eds), The Machine That Kills Bad People
The Machine That Kills Bad PeopleEdited by Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, María Palacios Cruz and Ben RiversThe Visible Press, June…
Erika Balsom, The Edges of Cinema
Published with Columbia University Press, available here. Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet…
Zhaoyu Zhu, Film Technology in Socialist Chinese Cinema: Cinematic Megamachine
Published by Routledge, July 2026, available here. Abstract: This book examines the history of film technology in Maoist China from…
Antonio Yijiao Guo,”Happy Together: The Socialist Utopia in a Shanghai Worker’s Apartment.”
Antonio Yijiao Guo, “Happy Together: The Socialist Utopia in a Shanghai Worker’s Apartment.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 38, no.1 (2026): 120-145. https://doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2026.0092 …
Chun-Lung Ma,”Traversing Hong Kong’s Non-Places and Heterotopias in Films of Global Crises.”
Ma, Chun-Lung. “Traversing Hong Kong’s Non-Places and Heterotopias in Films of Global Crises.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne…
Belén Vidal and Luis Freijo’s AGE-C web database launches with online event on 3rd June 2026
The AGE-C project on ageing and gender in European cinema has created a public-facing web tool to enable users to…
Erica Carter & Bettina Malcomess, ‘Dossier: re-sounding the colonial archive. Decolonial archive practice in the films of Onyeka Igwe and Petna Ndaliko Katondolo’
Erica Carter and Bettina Malcomess, ‘Dossier: re-sounding the colonial archive. Decolonial archive practice in the films of Onyeka Igwe and…
Rosalind Galt, ‘Tales of Entrails: Animist Cult Horror in Southeast Asia’
Rosalind Galt’s chapter ‘Tales of Entrails: Animist Cult Horror in Southeast Asia’ has been published in Global Cult Cinemas: Decolonizing…
Iain Robert Smith, Dolores Tierney, and Shruti Narayanswamy (editors), Global Cult Cinema: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies
Global Cult Cinema: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies, edited by Iain Robert Smith, Dolores Tierney, and Shruti Narayanswamy, has been published…
Rosalind Galt, Touki Bouki (BFI Film Classics series)
Rosalind Galt’s book on Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki, published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, is now…
Jinhee Choi’s Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood wins Best Monograph at the 2026 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards
Published with Oxford University Press, Forever Girls is the first English-language monograph to focus on girlhood and South Korean cinema.…
Elena Gorfinkel awarded Creative Practice Catalyst grant for restoration of Barbara Loden films
Elena Gorfinkel’s has been announced as the recipient of a Creative Practice Catalyst Seed Fund for her project “Restoring Women’s…
Daniel Mann’s Film ‘The Recce’ Premiered at 2026 Berlinale
Drawing on a location test filmed in Uganda and an email exchange with the scout, this short film captures cinema’s…
Special Issue on Ageing in Journal NECSUS edited by Belén Vidal, Luis Freijo, and Asja Makarević
As part of the AGE-C project on ageing and gender in European cinema, the NECSUS special section on ageing seeks…
Exhibition ‘No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image’ Curated by Erika Balsom
Running from February 13th until May 3rd at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving…
Former King’s PhD Student Jacob Engelberg’s Book ‘Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression’ Published By Duke University Press
Based on his doctoral thesis ‘Cinematic Figurations of Bisexual Transgression’ supervised at King’s by Rosalind Galt and Elena Gorfinkel, Jacob…
Erica Carter’s AHRC-funded project ‘Unhousing Restitution: African audiovisual heritage between displacement and return’ launches January 2026
The Unhousing Restitution: African audiovisual heritage between displacement and return (UNREST), supported by £1.1 million in funding by the Arts…
Exhibition section ‘The Secret Mirror, or, the Disappearance of A. A. A. Offresi’ curated by Erika Balsom
Erika Balsom has curated the section The Secret Mirror, or, the Disappearance ofA.A.A. Offresi as part of the exhibition On…
Alexandra Grieve, ‘“She’s connected to my head while doing my hair”: embodiment and Afrofeminist epistemologies in the documentaries of Rosine Mbakam’
Grieve, A. (2025) ‘“She’s connected to my head while doing my hair”: embodiment and Afrofeminist epistemologies in the documentaries of…
Sarah Cooper, ‘Toward a cinema of multiplicity: Alice Diop’s La Permanence (2016).’
Sarah Cooper, ‘Toward a cinema of multiplicity: Alice Diop’s La Permanence (2016),’ in Contemporary French Civilization, 50: 3, August 2025,…
Film Studies Research Seminars 2025-2026
Wednesdays, 5-7pm, K2.31 (Nash Lecture Theatre) Semester 1 8th October 2025Mingkun Li (KCL): “Peripheral Official Memory Work: Mediating Third Front…
Professor Ivone Marguiles, BFI Key Scholars Lecture at Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception Symposium, in Partnership with Department of Film Studies, King’s College London
Ivone Marguiles’ Keynote Lecture “Both, On the Contrary: Propositions on Akerman’s aesthetic of in-consistency” will open the Chantal Akerman: Adventures…
Nobunye Levin and Palesa Shongwe’s film ‘Reverie’ shortlisted for 2025 BAFTSS Award for Best Videographic Criticism
Shortlisted for a BAFTSS Practice Research Award 2025, in the category of Best Videographic Criticism. Reverie (2023) lies at the…
Lviv Diary: Preview Screening, Q&A with Chris Berry and Filmmaker Tammy Cheung
Hosted by the Department of Film Studies and the Un.censor.ing Cultural Heritage Network on 1st February 2025 Depicting life in…
Chris Berry, ‘North Korean Cinema in China: The Logic of Cultural Exchange’
Chris Berry, ‘North Korean Cinema in China: The Logic of Cultural Exchange’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema,…
The Prop Book Launch with 35mm Screening of There’s Always Tomorrow, in Conversation with Filmmaker Joanna Hogg
The Prop, by Elena Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes (Fordham University Press, 2025). Hosted by the Barbican Centre, Elena Gorfinkel…
Sarah Cooper, ‘Green Fingers: Jean Genet’s hands and flowers.’
Sarah Cooper, ‘Green fingers: Jean Genet’s hands and flowers,’ Screen, Volume 65, Issue 4, Winter 2024, Pages 572–580, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjae044 As part of…
Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures
Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures (White Cube, 2024), with featured essay by Erika Balsom. Published to mark Jeff Wall’s major…
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art (Phaidon Press, 2025), with an introduction by Erika Balsom. The…