Chris Berry’s keynote lecture “Two Waves of Women’s Cinema (Nűxing Dianying) in the PRC: Looking Backwards to Look Forward”
“Two Waves of Women’s Cinema (Nűxing Dianying) in the PRC: Looking Backwards to Look Forward” In Sinophone Women’s Cinema and…
Chris Berry’s keynote lecture “Taiwanese-Language Cinema as a Cold War Industry and Culture: Compliance without Commitment”
“Taiwanese-Language Cinema as a Cold War Industry and Culture: Compliance without Commitment” In The 5th International Conference on the Film…
KCL Films for Ukraine 2023
Film Studies’s Professor Chris Berry along with colleagues in Digital Humanities created a programme of film screenings and events to…
Belen Vidal’s talk at Academia Film Olomouc, the 59th Festival of Science Documentary Films
Belén Vidal was a guest speaker at AFO – Academia Film Olomouc, the 59th Festival of Science Documentary Films. AFO…
The Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference (30-31 Aug 2024)
The Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference took place 30-31 August 2024 at King’s College London. The two days of…
Book launch + screening: Ulrike Ottinger – Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination (June 4, 5, 7)
Book Launch Tue, 04.06.2024, 6:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London An evening of short talks and longer conversations over a glass of…
LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA: BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Please join us in June and July at BFI Southbank for our third series of workshops devoted to re-envisioning film…
AI ‘Remakes’ of La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
23 May 2024 15:00 to 17:00 Strand Campus, London Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a celebrated short film about a post-nuclear…
‘Thinking Cinema, Otherwise’ with Earl Jackson
Professor Earl Jackson will discuss Japanese film theories and beyond in three events at King’s College London and Garden Cinema on 6,…
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2024
This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers…
“Grandma’s Grammar” Screenings curated by Elena Gorfinkel
Elena Gorfinkel has curated a five screening programme “Grandma’s Grammar” at the Open City Documentary Film Festival London, 24-30 April…
Prof. Yizhou Tian presented at the 3rd Global Circulations of Film Theory Symposium
Visiting Scholar Professor Yizhou Tian from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) joins us for a year with support from the China…
Global Circulations of Film Theory Course: Decolonising Film Theory Through Asian Cinema
Events at BFI Southbank for a series of workshops that will explore questions of decolonising film theory through Asian cinema:…
Cinepoetics Lectures: Elena Gorfinkel
Elena Gorfinkel delivers the 21st Cinepoetics Lecture in Berlin.
A Med Hondo Study Day
On January 20th, KCL and BFI host a Med Hondo Study Day.
Preview: Orlando, My Political Biography + Conversation with Paul B. Preciado and Erika Balsom
The Barbican presents a preview of the highly anticipated film by writer Paul B. Preciado based on the novel Orlando, with a discussion hosted by Erika Balsom.
Screening + Panel: Archiving By Other Means
A screening of Filipa César’s award-winning documentary Spell Reel, organised by Glenys Adelusi, former KCL student.
Lecture: Man In Search for Meaning
Dr. Luis Freijo presents a guest lecture at the Cornelia-Goethe-Centrum, part of the Goethe University of Frankfurt on Nov 15th.
Lecture: Sleeping in the Movie Theater
UW-Milwaukee welcomes KCL’s Elena Gorfinkel on Nov 14th to speak about Sleeping in the Theatre and Barbara Loden’s Wanda.
Porn Studies: Symposium Honouring the Work of Linda Williams
The UC-Berkeley Department of Film and Media and Department of Rhetoric would like to invite you to a Symposium on Porn Studies, honouring the work of Linda Williams.
Talk: Not Only: Barbara Loden’s Poetics of Fatigue
Dr Elena Gorfinkel will be giving a lecture and facilitating a workshop on Barbara Loden in Madison, Wisconsin in November 2023.
The Machine that Kills Bad People: Ode to Mount Hayachine + Un vent léger dans le feuillage
This upcoming event programmed by The Machine that Kills Bad People will feature two original 16mm prints in partnership with the Japan Foundation.
Once Upon A Time: A Disney Day
A deep dive into the world of this phenomenally successful studio 12:00-17:00Saturday 22 July 2023 12:00NFT3 Sold out! Dive deeper…
BFI Course: Re-envisioning Film Theory
During June and July, this three-session course explores how film theory might be re-envisioned in a global context.
Workshop: Eco-cinematics
The Eco-cinematics workshop on 16th June will highlight various possibilities to consider an inclusive, mutually-informed relationship between research, education and practice – or ways of living.
Screening: Beau Travail, Introduced by Rosalind Galt
On 9 April the screening will be introduced by Professor Rosalind Galt. Number 7 in The Sight and Sound Greatest…
Screening and Film Talk: Kurdish post-migrant filmmaking in Germany
A screening and film talk on Kurdish cinema with Özgür Çiçek and Iain Robert Smith on May 4th
Research Seminar: Cinema and Empire: Technologies and Practices
Erica Carter presents her talk “White Cinema/Colonial Pink” at the Paul Mellon Centre on February 8th
Talk: No Master Territories: Reflections on an Exhibition
Erika Balsom talks about the conceptualisation and realisation of the eponymous exhibition and cinema programme in Toronto on March 2nd
Panel: The South Korean New Wave and Female Directors at the BFI
Jinhee Choi is part of a panel on South Korean female filmmakers during BFI’s Woman With a Movie Camera Summit on January 14th
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: Reimagining Malay Cultures: the Pontianak as World Cinema
Rosalind Galt leads the latest Singapore Studies Virtual Seminar on January 20th
BFI Study Day: Hussein Shariffe, A Life Between Exile and Homecoming
An afternoon looking at the importance of Sudanese experimental and independent filmmaker Hussein Shariffe.
Live Podcast: The Wonder of Nature in Ghibli
Join Chris Holiday, Alex Sergeant, and special guests as their live studio audience in the leafy surroundings of Barbican Conservatory for a special recording of the popular Fantasy/Animation podcast.
The Machine That Kills Bad People: Madame a des envies + My Twentieth Century
The Machine That Kills Bad People (held bi-monthly in the ICA Cinema and programmed by Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, Maria…