Streaming on The Cinema of Ideas from 7-21 March, Restitution in Motion is an online season of films and discussions exploring historical and new approaches to restitution.
In this creative written response to the programme, Dr Lennon…
Streaming on The Cinema of Ideas from 7-21 March, Restitution in Motion is an online season of films and discussions exploring historical and new approaches to restitution.
In this creative written response to the programme, Dr Lennon Mhishi (researcher…
အိမ်မက်စီးရီး (၁)
ရန်ကုန်ကို မက်တဲ့ မနေ့ညက အိမ်မက်ထဲမှာ
ရှိတ်စပီးယားပြဇာတ်တစ်ပုဒ်အကြောင်းသင်နေတဲ့ ဆံတုစွပ်ထားတဲ့ ဆရာမတစ်ယောက်က
ငါ့ကို လက်ဗီးစတောက်အတ္တုပ္ပတိတွေ စပိန်လို ဖတ်ခိုင်းတယ်
ငါ ဒေါသတွေ ထွက်လိုက်တာ
အိမ်အပြန်လမ်းဟာ စိမ်းသလိုလိုနဲ့
ရင်းနှီးနေပြန်တယ်
ပလက်ဖောင်းပေါ်အထိ လျှံထွက်နေတဲ့
လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင်ခုံပုတွေကြားက ဖြတ်လျှောက်ရင်း
၁ ၂ ၃ ၄ ၅ ၆ ၇ ၈ ၉…
Streaming on the Cinema of Ideas from 9 – 16 September, Life in the Woods is an online event exploring our relationship with nature and imagining a sustainable future on Earth.
One of the films in the programme is The Moon and…
Projectionism is a new film by artist filmmaker Sarah Wood, made in response to an open call for cinemagoing memories from the cinema workers, makers and thinkers who keep film culture alive and well despite the challenges of the times.…
From 24 March to 6 April, our online streaming platform the Cinema of Ideas is hosting Visibly Animated: a film season shining a light on disability representation and accessibility in animation, curated by freelance programmer Louise M. Milsom.
Matchbox Cine has…
Our FEDS Trainee Scheme offers participants a ten-month long paid traineeship in the exhibition sector, as well as mentoring and expert industry advice. In this blog we hear from Aagya Pradhan, a current trainee based at HOME in Manchester, about developing the…
Streaming on the Cinema of Ideas from today until 5 March, Stitched Up! Protest and the Garment Industry is a film season which opens our eyes to what our dependence on fast fashion means for garment workers around the world, how they…
From 25-27 January, the Black Film Bulletin presents The Gaze on the Cinema of Ideas, a collection of short films by trailblazing British filmmakers from the African-Caribbean diaspora: Dreaming Rivers (dir. Martina Attille, 1988), Coffee Coloured Children (dir. Ngozi Onwurah, 1988) and Concrete Garden (dir. Alrick Riley, 1994). The Gaze is presented…
Streaming on the Cinema of Ideas until 16 December, Independent Miss Craigie is a fascinating new film about pioneering filmmaker Jill Craigie (1911-99), one of the first women to direct films in Britain and a passionate feminist who aspired to build a more equal…
From 18 November – 2 December, we’re celebrating the working-class heroines who brought grit and glamour to 1980s women’s cinema by screening Mai Zetterling’s brilliant Borstal ballad Scrubbers on The Cinema of Ideas. Alongside this, Susannah Buxton, who created the film’s costumes,…
From 28 October – 3 November we’ll be presenting two essential short films from pioneering black filmmaker Fronza Woods, plus a brand new filmed interview with Woods by director Nadia Latif, on our Cinema of Ideas virtual platform.
To accompany…
This month on The Cinema of Ideas we are presenting two films by Margaret Salmon, one of Britain’s most vital cinema artists, in a double bill which places her latest work Icarus (after Amelia) [2021] alongside her 2016 film Bird. In addition to the screenings, we…
For the first event on The Cinema Of Ideas we’ll be joined by curator & researcher Aleema Gray, alongside Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm and June Givanni for a conversation on the experiences of Rastafari women in Britain through an exploration of…
In this essay, curator and academic Aleema Gray considers D. Elmina Davis’s film in the context of the 1980s and the British Rastafari movement.
Against the backdrop of colonial trauma and…
Club des Femmes’ So Mayer discusses the expressive beauty of this globetrotting film – which shows an intimate, perhaps less familiar aspect to Moomin creator Tove Jansson’s life and art: her relationship and filmmaking collaboration with Tuulikki Pietilä, the graphic…