Deptford & New Cross Virtual Social Centre. Film Night. Housing. 17.5.2012 7.30PM

Hi, Just a reminder about tomorrow’s film night: Subject: New Social Centre / Film night starts May17th at NX Library Deptford & New Cross Virtual Social Centre present Films to change the world with: Housing Films about ordinary people’s direct solutions to housing crises -  from rent strikes to squatting @ New Cross People’s Library [...]

NXRB – “In Time”, film review by Sophie Fuggle

Marx at the Movies 16.3.2012

Marx at the Movies Conference, March 16-17, 2012 University of Central Lancashire See the extensive Conference programme here. in partnership with Lancashire International Film Festival @LIFEPreston2012 and sponsored by The Contemporary Arts Development Group (CADG) and the Research Fund of the School of Journalism, Media and Communication (JOMEC) Friday 16 March: Mitchell & Kenyon Theatre [...]

Newspeak – Ken Fero

Watch Newspeak: http://vimeo.com/34527445 Newspeak (25minutes/2011/Ken Fero/Migrant Media) Truth is the first casualty of war and ‘Newspeak’ explores just how media is currently controlled in the UK through power structures like Ofcom. Using poetry and experimental visual techniques the film is a personal journey with filmmaker Ken Fero reflecting on how the radical content of certain images [...]

Some Like it Hot

Screening monday 23 Jan 2012 7:15pm Laurie Grove Council Room Goldsmith Centre for Cultural Studies.   Other monday films here.

draft notes 1.2

draft notes 1.2 lecture notes not for forwarding Fragment of Kane Kane collects: ‘Witness the repugnant spectacle of a blind lust for collection … Man envelopes himself in the odour of decay; through his antiquarian habit he succeeds in degrading even a more significant talent and nobler need to an insatiable craving for novelty, or [...]

Bodies Assembling 3-11 Dec 2011 Auto-Italia

A series of screenings and workshops in collaboration with the Women’s film distributor Cinenova 3rd – 11th December 2011 Auto Italia in collaboration with Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists. Bodies Assembling strives to facilitate multiple readings or viewings of historical [...]

Film screening “Vincent Who?” – Sept 12 2011 Amnesty International – The Human Rights Action Centre

Asian Pacific Americans for Progress & Islington Chinese Association proudly invite you to the London Premiere of “Vincent Who?” A documentary on Asian American political empowerment   Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 7-9 pm Amnesty International – The Human Rights Action Centre  17-25 New Inn Yard  London EC2A 3EA Free Admission (Ticket reservation on http://www.amnesty.org.uk/events_details.asp?EventsID=1930)   In [...]

Under the Skies of Rust

A lovely little film on the National Instruments factory in Jadavpur. Thanks Lara More on National Instruments here

Contemporary Africa on Screen programme: 25.2.2011

You are cordially invited to the next event in the  Contemporary Africa on Screen programme. Screening of *P SQUARE: LONDON 2010* Join director Mohamed Osman-Kamara and journalist Ade Deramy to view their latest documentary about Nigerian R&B band *P Square* during their trip to the UK to perform. Among the biggest groups to come out [...]

The Time Machine (Pearce) 6:30 7.2.11

Screening of ‘The Time Machine’ (2002), directed by Wells written by Wells (different ones). In the Goldsmiths Cinema RHB on monday 7th Feb 2011 at 6:30 PM. All welcome.

Ghost Dance – 6.30 pm 24 Jan 2010

In 1983 Derrida collaborated with Ken McMullen on the film Ghost Dance. Screening, all welcome – Monday  24 Jan 2010 RHB Cinema Goldsmiths. 6.30 pm. Obliquely linked to the spectres in the Cultural Studies and Capitalism course on tuesdays at 4.    

Alone Across the pacific

Frustration at the law and permission, passports and papers never in order, flee, run, escape. The quest, the journey, the search and the text. The rebellion against the father who forbids, madness, loneliness, escapades and close shaves, danger and struggles, chance, the sky takes up three-quarters of the screen, the place of the sun, the [...]

Hidden Herstories Goldsmiths Cinema 22.3.12010 6pm.

Film Screening Monday 22nd march Goldsmiths Cinema – All Welcome. The Octavia Foundation is a charity based in Ladbroke Grove which supports local people through innovative projects which have a positive impact on individuals and communities. Our youth work focuses on young people’s creativity, energy and talent, and has resulted in award-winning, broadcast-quality multimedia projects. [...]

sthaniya sambaad 19.3.2010 5pm

I am very pleased to announce a special screening of the feature film by Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas ‘sthaniya sambaad‘ (‘spring in the colony‘), (105 min. 2009, 35 mm, cinemascope, EST). Q & A with one of the directors. 5pm friday 19th March – Goldsmiths Cinema RHB please take a look at  www.springinthecolony.com and also [...]

Orson

Notes for lecture one: How to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital, of which an immense, even monstrous, accumulation of commentary on the Marxist mode of literary production appears to have already shaped its elementary forms? For all the interest in Marx, in the past and renewed today, it is at least [...]

To Gaza with Love – 6pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 30 Nov 2009

The true story a rag-tag team of international peace activists aboard two fishing boats, who decided to take on the might of the Israeli military and break the siege of Gaza. Refusing to be intimidated, only one thing could stop them; and that was them-selves. Screening, 6pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 30 Nov 2009 Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2755068441/

“Understanding Trafficking” a film by Ananya Chakraborti – Monday 16th November, 2009 Goldsmiths Cinema

UK screening of “Understanding Trafficking” plus Q&A with the director Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti 6pm Monday 16th November, 2009 Goldsmiths Cinema (Richard Hoggart Building, New Cross, SE14) Legend goes, there is a magical line that Laxman drew around Sita, which no woman is supposed to cross. If any woman dared to cross the magical line, she [...]

Film: To Gaza with Love

IndyMedia on Aki on Gaza: At this years London Anarchist Bookfair I grabbed Musician, Activist, Punk, Broadcaster and Musilim, Aki Nawaz who was there to introduce his film ‘To Gaza With Love’. He gave some tough critiques on the Anarchist movement, talked about his recent visit to Pakistan in which he questions the true motives [...]

Border Documents 9-11 Nov 2009 Copenhagen

Border Documents @ CPH:DOX Border Documents: A scholarly/activist workshop on the crossings of borders and documentary films. Border Documents is the third in a series of events run as part of the international research network Beyond Borders. Preamble: In “Sonic Border” (London Nov 2008) we explored the way sound crosses the border differently, provoking a [...]