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Nina Danino: I Die Of Sadness Crying For You – Screening and study day

Date: 20th November 2019 Category: Film Strands Comments: 0

Screening Fri 6 Dec, 6pm - 9pm: FREE BOOK HERE Screening Sat 7 Dec, 10am - 3.30pm: FREE BOOK HERE Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PDBooking free via EventbriteBook online “Prepare for some heart-wrenchingly beautiful melodies from the greatest Spanish divas spilling their sorrow in the form of singing known as Copla” – Helen de Witt, 63rd BFI London Film Festival. Following its recent premiere at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival and the Seville European Film Festival, LUX, BIMI and the London Instituto Cervantes are delighted to present a screening of Nina Danino’s film I Die Of Sadness Crying For You (2019) on Friday 6…

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Remembering Channel 4’s Out on Tuesday

Date: 7th November 2019 Category: Film Strands, Television, Video Tags: , , Comments: 0

Remembering Channel 4's Out on Tuesday: Queer Spaces in Public Service Television  [Critical Studies in Television, 14.4, 2019: Stuart Marshall Dossier link] Book your free tickets: Friday 22nd November: 14.00-17.00 Screening of some programmes and films made for the series. Birkbeck Cinema Book hereFriday 22nd November: 18.00-21.00 Discussion and screening event featuring the programme's commissioner and some of its series producers and filmmakers, alongside other contributors involved in making the programmes for the series. Birkbeck Cinema Book hereSaturday 23rd November: 10.00-16.30 Discussion and screening event featuring the programme's commissioner and some of its series producers and filmmakers, alongside other contributors involved in making the programmes for the series. Birkbeck Cinema…

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Making Films in Times of Political and Financial Crises

Date: 2nd October 2019 Category: Film Strands Comments: 0

When: 8 November 2019, 12:00 — 17:00Venue: Goldsmiths University, LGB Council Room, 1st Floor, Laurie Grove FREE, Book your place here Workshop: Making Films in Times of Political and Financial Crises, moderated by Želimir Žilnik Making films under financial and political constraints remains an urgent topic in the current social climate. There is perhaps no better European filmmaker to explicate working in this climate than Yugoslav-Serbian director Želimir Žilnik. Žilnik has been active making films since the 1960s, always working with a strong political consciousness and a confrontational attitude to the status quo. From his debut feature film receiving the Golden Bear at the Berlin…

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From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Event Notes and Resources

Date: 12th June 2019 Category: Film Strands Comments: 1

On Friday 5th July the Birkbeck cinema will host the Self-Representation in Visual Culture research group for the launch of their latest publication, the edited collection From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representing the Self in the Moving Image, published by Peter Lang. You can register your attendance for free here. Established in 2013, the Self-Representation in Visual Culture research group is an interdisciplinary, international group focused on self-representation in visual arts, film, and new media, consisting of academics and researchers Muriel Tinel-Temple, Laura Busetta and Marlène Monteiro. This blog post serves as a resource prior to the screening of related materials, writings and media produced by…

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BIMI-PITT Research Workshop: “Displacement in Film and Visual Culture”

Date: 1st June 2019 Category: Film Strands Tags: , , Comments: 0

By Russell Banfield Friday 17thMay, Panel #5: Displacing Communities Over the course of three days, the third edition of the BIMI-PITT Research Workshop, a joint venture between the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the University of Pittsburgh to share and develop research, covered a wide range of subjects, all based around the notion of displacement. For the fifth panel, Displacing Communities, John Taylor and William Ackah took the theme of displacement at its most literal, focusing on the countless people, homes, and communities that have been removed, destroyed, or divided by US government social policy in the 1950s and 1960s, namely the construction…

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Doozy, dir. by Richard Squires (UK, 2018)

Date: 1st June 2019 Category: Film Strands Tags: , , , , , Comments: 0

By Russell Banfield Where does the character end and the actor begin? That’s the question behind Doozy, an essay film by Richard Squires that weaves academic commentary, animated dramatizations, and childhood recollections to explore the life and career of Paul Lynde, a closeted gay actor who voiced some of Hanna-Barbera’s best-loved villains, but who struggled with alcoholism, typecasting, and the constant tension between his public life as a popular comedian and his private life as a closeted homosexual. Each of the characters he voiced regularly dressed up in drag, were always humiliated at the end, and all had a snarky, camp voice, sniggering laughter, and fey…

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Let Them Speak: Women’s Voices in Helena Solberg’s short films

Date: 27th February 2019 Category: Film Strands, Writing Comments: 0

Author: Fernando Chaves Espinach Date: 12/02/2019 The final sequence of The Interview (1966) is jarring. After watching a woman preparing for her wedding and listening to middle-class women voicing their opinions on sexuallity and education, we cut to agitation in the streets. Manifestations, placards, masses: society in turmoil, at the gates of a military dictatorship. Such a break in mood emphasizes what later became appreciated in the Brazilian director’s cinema: her relentless highlighting of the political dimension of women’s private lives. The Interview was the first of three short films shown on February 8th at the Birkbeck Cinema in a programme curated by Patricia Sequeira…

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Marilyn Monroe: a reappraisal

Date: 5th February 2019 Category: Audio, Film Strands Comments: 0

This recording comes from a discussion between Laura Mulvey and Jacqueline Rose following a screening of Niagara (1953). The recording can be accessed here: https://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2019/02/marilyn-monroe-a-reappraisal/?fbclid=IwAR0Z0Or0loxyliV9jINq-Wz0U28EyyRfhHrDFSrjy_gPPkzs35tQ4s4gnkg Niagara (1953) A newlywed couple, the Cutlers, arrive at Niagara Falls and meet another couple, the Loomis', of differing ages, who are always arguing. Mrs Cutler spies Mrs Loomis kissing another man, and learns that they are planning to murder the husband. He, however, kills the boyfriend first, and then his wife on an observation tower above the falls, before drowning in the falls himself. (BFI) Trailer for Niagara (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTNi6CazRQ  

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From Animation to Martial Arts: Toward Transcendence of False Movements

Date: 18th January 2019 Category: Film Strands Comments: 0

This event is part of the Annual University of Pittsburgh Lecture. Event Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-pittsburgh-lecture-from-animation-to-martial-arts-tickets-53907142715 Jinying Li - Assistant Professor of Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh Animation (donghua pian) and martial arts films (wuxia pian) have demonstrated close affinity with each other in the history of Chinese cinema. They overlap historically and conceptually. The martial arts films frequently rely on various animation techniques (e.g. stop motion, cel animation, computer graphics) to create special effects in spectacular fighting scenes. Chinese animations often take their narrative and visual references from the genre conventions of martial arts, featuring fighting warriors and heroic fantasies in exotic sceneries in animated imagery.…

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Peltz Gallery Internship

Date: 2nd November 2018 Category: Film Strands Comments: 0

Peltz Gallery Internship Applications now open for 2018/19 Deadline: 10am, 16th November 2018 Send your CV and letter of application here: mbarri02@mail.bbk.ac.uk About the Internship In this position the successful candidate will be tasked with assisting with the organisation, documentation and administrative support for an upcoming exhibition on the work of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. You will be required to work for approximately 3.5 hours per week during term time, which equates to 30 weeks total over the academic year. Hours and allocation may vary depending on workload and events. This position is marked at Grade 5 of the College’s London Pay Scale which equates…

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