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…