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FTV's Hande Çayır led filmmaking workshops at SOAS, University of London's Brunei Gallery

Hande Çayır designed and facilitated audio-visual storytelling workshops as part of the UKRI-funded ‘Archive of Solidarity: Precarity, Creativity and Shared Future-Making Across Closed Borders’ project, held from 22 April to 9 May 2025 at SOAS University of London’s Brunei Gallery.
Mon 02 Jun 2025, 14:40 | Tags: engagement, staff, practice

Misha Zakharov is hosting multiple guest events this spring in collaboration with Queer East, Flatpack, and King’s College London

This spring, third-year Warwick's Film & TV PhD candidate Misha Zakharov is staging multiple one-off events across London and Birmingham in collaboration with various institutions. These events, which combine screenings of rarely-seen films with discussions and curated book stands/printed materials, tackle subjects such as queer identities in Central Asia, epistemic violence and censorship in the Global South, and women’s prisons in the United States and Canada.
Thursday 24th April (18:30–21:00): Bush House, King’s College London – the UK premiere of Shubigi Rao’s film Talking Leaves (Singapore’s participation in the Venice Biennale, 2022), followed by a discussion with Ihar Ivanou, editor at the Belarusian diasporic publishing house Skaryna Press, alongside a curated book stand. This event also serves as an introduction to the symposium Scholarly Knowledge in the Context of Epistemic Injustice and Authoritarian Censorship:
Monday 28th April (19:00–21:30): Queer East, UCL East, London – lecture-performance on Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev, followed by a screening of Uzbek filmmaker Rustam Khamdamov’s Vocal Parallels, accompanied by a specially designed libretto:
Tuesday 13th May (19:45–22:00): Flatpack Festival, the Mockingbird Cinema, BirminghamCarceral Cinema, Act 1 featuring Janis Cole and Holly Dale’s P4W: Prison for Women (1981) and Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio’s Inside Women Inside (1978), followed by a discussion and curated book stand:
Wed 09 Apr 2025, 13:49 | Tags: engagement Events

Tom Hemingway and James MacDowell's video essay selected in Sight & Sound best-of list

A video essay by the department’s Tom Hemingway and James MacDowell was chosen by two contributors to Sight & Sound's best-of 2024 poll. Their video is about Bo Burnham's Netflix comedy special INSIDE, authenticity and YouTube aesthetics. The list also includes James' picks for best video essays of the year. The video essay can be viewed on YouTube here.
Fri 10 Jan 2025, 10:42 | Tags: engagement, Publications, Research impact, practice, awards

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