News and events for Film and Television Studies at Warwick

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:

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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:

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Tuesday 13th May (19:45–22:00): Flatpack Festival, the Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham – Carceral 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:

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Wed 09 Apr 2025, 13:49 | Tags: engagement Events

Stephen Gundle to Give the Keynote Address at a Symposium marking the Centenary of Italian Screen Actor Marcello Mastroianni.

Stephen Gundle will be giving the keynote address at a Symposium to mark the centenary of Italian screen actor Marcello Mastroianni. The event is to be held at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Friday 13 December.

Tue 03 Dec 2024, 14:33 | Tags: staff keynote Events Research news Conferences Italian Producers

FTV Organisers of Samizdat Film Festival Celebrate its Return

Samizdat Film Festival (https://samizdatfest.co.uk/) in Scotland, co-founded and ran by Ilia Ryzhenko, misha (irek) yakovlev and PhD students at other universities will run for its third year from 1st until 5th October in Glasgow and, for the first time ever, in Edinburgh on 19th October.

Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in Communist states, Samizdat Film Festival is an audience-focused film festival based in Glasgow. The festival takes place annually at CCA Glasgow, online, on the streaming platform Klassiki, and for the first time this October in Edinburgh. With a diverse programme of meticulously curated retrospectives and new films, as well as special events (online panel discussions, silent films with a score performed live, showcases of short films). Samizdat is Scotland’s first festival of cinema from Eastern/Central Europe, Central, North and North-Easy Asia, and the Caucasus.

Tue 24 Sept 2024, 13:26 | Tags: Postgraduate engagement staff Events

Vanishing Point - celebrating Duncan Whitley's residency at the University of Warwick

In the academic year 2022-23, Film and Television Studies/the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Culture were delighted to host Duncan Whitley as our Filmmaker in ResidenceLink opens in a new window. During his residency, Duncan worked with academics from around the university, and particularly the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network and community partners Inini. His work was supported by the IAS, the Connecting Cultures GRP, Warwick Institute of Engagement, as well as the SCAPVC. To celebrate the end of Duncan’s residency we are organising a screening of Duncan’s recent and developing work (including the work that has come out of this residency), along with a Q&A with Duncan and some time to reflect on the place of artists in residence in the university.

The event takes place in the Faculty of Arts Building’s cinema (FAB 0/21) on the University of Warwick central campus on Thursday 30th November from 6-8.30pm, including a drinks reception in the Agora in the FAB.

More information can be found on the event here: Vanishing Point (warwick.ac.uk)Link opens in a new window

A booking form can be found here (all invitees need to book their free of charge places at this event): Vanishing Point Bookings (warwick.ac.uk)Link opens in a new window

Mon 30 Oct 2023, 13:30 | Tags: Events practice

No Cash Slash: Horror and the Gothic Film Festival, 1-2 July 2023

On Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of July, Horror and the Gothic students will be hosting the annual Horror and the Gothic film festival. It’s called No Cash Slash, and features an exciting selection of films and activities. The festival is free admission, and begins at 15:00 on Saturday the 1st in the FAB cinema (FAB 0.21). Please refer to the festival’s Instagram account for more information, and a gradual unveiling of the scheduled films: https://www.instagram.com/nocashslash/ I hope some of you will be able to join us for what promises to be a fun way to end the term.

Fri 23 Jun 2023, 16:54 | Tags: undergraduate engagement teaching Events Horror and the Gothic