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Screening and Symposium about the film 120 BPM – 10 May 2019

Screening and Symposium about the film 120 BPM

10 May 2019 – 6.00 – 9.00pm

The screening takes place at Queen Mary, University of London on Friday the 10th of May. It will be followed by a roundtable with a fantastic lineup of speakers and a wine reception. See speaker details below.

– Ben Walters (a writer who blogs about moving-image, queer and DIY cultures @not_television & recently completed a PhD on nightlife collective Duckie at Queen Mary)
-Ray Malone (co-founder of the NHS Anti-Swindle Team, the founder of The Fallout Club and ACT UP activist)
-Lo Marshall (who works with the UCL Urban Laboratory on a project researching LGBTQI nightlife spaces in London from 1986 until the present).

The symposium will take place at King’s College, London on Saturday the 11th of May and will focus on diverse and interdisciplinary responses to 120 BPM, including panels on ‘Queer Histories / Activisms’, ‘Colour’, ‘Dance, Sound, Rhythm, Community Building’, ‘Digital Technologies and Virtual Reality’ and ‘Death, Dust, & Plastics’ and a keynote by Dr Fiona Johnstone, whose publication AIDS & Representation: Portraits and Self-Portraits During the AIDS Crisis in America is forthcoming in 2019.

FILM SCREENING:

Friday, May 10th

6.00 – 9.00pm at the Hitchcock Cinema, ArtsOne, Queen Mary, University of London.

FREE, BOOK HERE:   https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/120-bpm-film-screening-and-panel-tickets-59883719818?aff=erelconmlt

SYMPOSIUM: 

Saturday, May 11th
10.30-5 at the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings College London
FREE, BOOK HERE:   https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/120-bpm-symposium-tickets-59883604473

We are extremely grateful for the support of our sponsors the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), The Society for French Studies (SFS) and The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF).

To find out more about the conference please go to 120BPMsymposium.wordpress.com or our twitter feed @120BPMSymposium.

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Screening: ‘Pablo’s Winter’ with director Q&A, 7 March 2016

Frontline Club & Scottish Documentary Institute presents a screening of

Pablo’s Winter (El invierno de Pablo)

Dir. Chico Pereira. UK/Spain, 2012, 76 mins.
Followed by a Q&A with the director

Date: Monday 7 March 2016
Time: 7pm
Place: 13 Norfolk Place, London W21QJ

http://www.frontlineclub.com/new-scottish-documentary-season-pablos-winter/

PabloPablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He has worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily. He has had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston’s a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times. Pablo represents the last generation of Almadén mercury miners, an age-old profession with over 2,000 years of history. Through a straightforward depiction of life’s everyday moments, Pablo’s Winter explores the decay of the local mining culture, but above all, pays homage to its real protagonists: the miners and their families.

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Screening: ‘London as a Village’ plus talk with filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro, 24 February 2016

The Center for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies invites you to the screening of

London as a Village 
+
Talk with film maker Takumã Kuikuro

Moderated by Prof. Paul Heritage (Queen Mary University of London)

Date and time: Wednesday 24 February 2016, 6pm-7pm

Location: Birkbeck Cinema, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

All are welcome, no booking is required   bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/events

In April 2015, film maker Takumã Kuikuro travelled all the way from his village, set within the Xingu Indigenous Territory (North Brazil), to the UK to take up a challenge from People’s Palace Projects: to spend a month in London producing and directing a film that would capture his vision of the city as a “village”. Takumã was selected from dozens of applicants through a grant scheme called Culture Connection Brazil, promoted by Brazil’s Ministry of Culture with the support of British Council and the Transform Programme. He was commissioned to record London from an indigenous perspective, exploring similarities and differences between his Kuikuro culture and the Londoners he christened “the Hyper-Whites”. The result is  a captivating and humorous anthropological documentary about western society and the many villages hidden under the skyscrapers of London.

Internationally recognised filmmaker Takumã is a member of the Kuikuro people, and grew up in the Ipatse village within the Alto Xingú Indigenous Territory in Mato Grosso state, central Brazil.  Aged 18, he was introduced to a group of anthropologists studying the villages, and became keen to learn Portuguese. It was through the anthropologists’ documentary team that he also discovered a passion: filmmaking. Through the project Video nas Aldeias – a film project that trains indigenous people to document their society and culture through images, founded by anthropologist Vicente Carelli, – Takumã started to shoot, direct and edit films about his village’s day to day activities, rituals and oral stories. His films started to spread quickly across Brazil and internationally, and soon he was presenting them in both  local and international Festivals. He was acclaimed for films such as The Day the Moon Menstruated, The Hyperwomen and Kariokas. Takumã became an Associate Artist of People’s Palace Projects in Autumn 2015.

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