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…