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Ritika Kaushik and Sean Batton co-curate upcoming 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India' program for Academy Museum, L.A.

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:11:46 GMT

Ritika Kaushik and Sean Batton have co-curated an upcoming film program for the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. Titled, 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India', this series explores the history of India and its fragmentations through a series of experimental shorts from the nation. The event will be held on October 23rd at 7:30 PT. 

Cinema Mentiré book launch event for Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill)

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:25:53 GMT

Warwick FTV's Tiago De Luca is the co-editor of the new collection, Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill). Cinema Mentiré is hosting a programme of contemporary Latin American short films exploring the four classical elements on Friday 6th October.

Free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elemental-world-cinema-book-launch-screening-tickets-1682526113899

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

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:49:43 GMT

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

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:33:52 GMT

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.

FTV Organisers of Samizdat Film Festival Celebrate its Return

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:26:14 GMT

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.

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

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:30:53 GMT

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 Residence. 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)

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)

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

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:54:00 GMT

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.

Lyra (2022) - Screening at Coventry Cathedral

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:21:00 GMT

Third year Film Studies student and investigative journalist Fran Hughes reports from the screening of Lyra (2022) at Coventry Cathedral, about the murdered Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee. The film was accompanied by a panel chaired by Professor Helen Wheatley (Director of Film and Television Studies) with Lyra's sister Nichola McKee-Corner and brother in law John Corner, the film's producer, Jackie Doyle, the Rev Dr Alex Wimberley (leader of the Corrymeela Community) and Professor Michele Aaron. Fran attended the screening as a recent recipient of the Centre for Investigative Journalism's Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme, and writes about the experience of watching the film and meeting Lyra's family

Film and Television Studies, Research Seminar: Penny Siopis’s stylo-caméra and the subject of cine-writing, Wednesday 19th October FAB0.21 (Cinema) 4.30pm

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:56:00 GMT

Penny Siopis’s films write histories that are markedly alternative. Combining family home movies, amateur or documentary found footage with sound and a written text presented through subtitles, her films tell untold or censored histories. They speak to (auto)biographical concerns and widely shared experiences of colonialism, war, Apartheid, migration, globalisation, and ecological crisis, all the while standing out as strong aesthetic/affective experiences beyond the historical, and as art objects in dialogue with a number of traditions. Here, I am most interested in producing an understanding of her films as a specific form of post-medium cine-writing. My interest is not purely formal, for the cine-writing in Siopis’s films is not independent of the stories they construct; it is a mode of writing beyond-the-book, born of the task of telling history otherwise. By working through her paragrammatical, scripto-visual style, my discussion will circle in particular around the unspeakable film subject produced by her work.

Stephen Gundle to give Keynote Address at 'Fellini: Italy, the Cinema' international conference

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:18:23 GMT

Stephen Gundle will deliver the concluding keynote address at the 'Fellini: Italy, the Cinema' international conference on Wednesday 23 June.