By Anthony Killick. On November 28, 2012, Secret City, a new feature-length documentary about the City of London and the Corporation that runs it, was screened in Venezuela’s Bolivar Hall in London. As a postgraduate student and member of the production team I have, over the past year, gained insight […]
Coming Soon: Film International 60
November 27, 2012
Paradise is Here: The aesthetic world of Imad and Swel Noury Imad and Swel Noury are conduits of a sort of cinematic bricollage. They are young – at the time of writing, Imad is 29 and Swel is 33. Born in Casablanca to a well-known Moroccan father – television and […]
Conference Invitation: SHERLOCK HOLMES, Past and Present
November 27, 2012
This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine and the Sherlock Holmes stories contribute one of the most enduring paradigms for the production and consumption of popular culture […]
UK’s largest and most popular Spanish & Latin American Film Festival ¡Viva! returns to Cornerhouse 8 – 24 March 2013
November 19, 2012
Cornerhouse is pleased to announce ¡Viva!, its annual, internationally acclaimed Spanish & Latin American Film Festival. Celebrating the most outstanding contributions in new cinema from a wide range of countries, the 2013 Festival programme will showcase significant world premieres and previews alongside high calibre feature films, short films and documentaries. […]
An Introduction to Film Africa 2012
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Programme Associate. In a year when cultural institutions of all kinds have felt under direct attack, building the size and scope of an African film festival in London has been no easy task. With funding cuts, and an increasingly rampant rhetoric of ‘necessity’ and ‘efficiency’, the […]
CFP: Music & the Moving Image VIII
October 24, 2012
MUSIC & THE MOVING IMAGE VIII Conference at NYU Steinhardt: May 31-June 2, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, TV, video games, mobile […]
In Production: Our first ever DOUBLE ISSUE
September 28, 2012
Shooting in Riyadh when Arabia Was Poor: American film crew accepts Arabian hospitality and lunch with Saudi King I’d flown into Riyadh from Bahrain as one of a film crew; about twenty of us travelling the world in a Pan American Airways DC-4 airliner shooting scenes for the huge screen […]
The End of the 80s? Brief notes on Cosmopolis and the film history of the yuppie
By Daniel Lindvall. Could it be that the yuppie is finally dying? And does that mean that the eighties are over? Is it a burial ode that David Cronenberg has given us with his latest film, Cosmopolis? Bred by the neoliberal stage of finance capitalism, the yuppie personality was made […]
Planetary Projection: Call for Participation
September 5, 2012
caboose, an independent publisher of books about film located in Montreal, Canada, is starting a new project on film projection called Planetary Projection, coordinated by Marina Uzunova. They are seeking contributions for an online album and eventual book from projectionists willing to share their experiences. For more information about this project, […]
Inside Film: The Condition of the Working Class
Inside Film’s upcoming documentary, The Condition of the Working Class (now in post-production), was inspired by Friedrich Engels’ book written in 1844, The Condition of the Working Class in England. How much has really changed since then? The power relations in our society remain essentially the same. As a result […]