“Latin America: Translation attempts” series is supported by the Unit of Global Justice Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths; Latin Elephant; and the Latin American Hub, Goldsmiths. The films take place at Goldsmiths University of London as follows: 15/03 Daughter of The Lake (2015, Peru, 87 minutes), directed by Ernesto Cabellos. Q&A (online) with director Ernesto Cabellos. 29/03 … Continue reading Latin America: Translation Attempts
16 March, 2017 6-9pm MRB, Screen 5 Goldsmiths University of London For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain) and … Continue reading Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
12 May 2017 10am – 5pm RHB Cinema Goldsmiths University of London Cities are in part constituted in myriad enactments of migrant presence which generate urban dialectics of self-and-city composition. Cities also condense many of the challenges we face in migration in the generation and navigation of local circuits composed through forms of social provision, … Continue reading Migrant Cartographies: Cities, Circuits and Circulations
23 February 5.30-7.00pm RHB137a Goldsmiths University of London UK Premier Screening with Douglas Harper (Duquesne University) + Lyndsey Moon (University of Roehampton) in Discussion. Chaired by Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths). “The Longest Journey Begins” is set in First Step Recovery, a half-way house near Pittsburgh, for men in active recovery from addictions to drugs and alcohol. … Continue reading The Longest Journey Begins
Screening and Director Q&A 8 – 10pm, Friday, 9 December 2016, The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London, SE11 4TH Tickets available here: £4 full price, £3 students Jim Hubbard has been making experimental films that explore lesbian and gay activism and community-building since the mid-1970s. In 1987, he co-founded MIX NYC, the New York Lesbian … Continue reading Four films by Jim Hubbard
17 Nov 2016 18:30 Curzon Cinema, Goldsmiths In collaboration with Curzon Goldsmiths join us to mark John Berger’s 90 birthday and the publication of A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger. A screening of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth … Continue reading The Seasons in Quincy
Wednesday 9 November 2016 RHB 309 Screening 3.30-5.30pm + Talk 6.00-7.30pm Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson Screening and Roundtable organised by the Methods Lab with the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory + Race Critical Studies Network + Media and Communications Dept at Goldsmiths Roderick Ferguson, … Continue reading Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson
Thursday 17 November 6.30pm Curzon Goldsmiths Zed Books is proud to collaborate with Curzon Goldsmiths to celebrate John Berger’s 90th birthday. Join us for an evening of film and discussion on Berger’s work with Professor Vikki Bell and Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, both from the Department of Sociology as well as contributors to A Jar of … Continue reading The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger + Exclusive Q&A
A SEASON OF FOUR FILMS OCT 13th – Nov 24th 2016 THURS NOV 24th PSH LG01 6-8.30pm Blood in the Mobile (2010) by Frank Poulsen, Q and A by Skype. Documentary looking at illegal mining in the DR Congo of cassiterite, which is then processed in East Asia for use in mobile phones. Conditions are highly … Continue reading GOLDSMITHS 2nd HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL: Blood in the Mobile
A SEASON OF FOUR FILMS OCT 13th – Nov 24th 2016 THURS NOV 10th PSH LG01 6-8.30pm Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) (2015) by Gianfranco Rosi followed by discussion on the refugee crisis led by speaker from Migration Research Network. Multi-award-winning film shot on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa during the European migrant crisis, The film … Continue reading GOLDSMITHS 2nd HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL: Fuocoammare
