13 Dec - Final BIMI screening of the term: Hitchcock's last silent THE MANXMAN (1929), Stephen Horne's
new orchestral score. 6.30pm
29 Nov - Birkbeck BIMI: DRAWING, ETC on Calum Storrie; and 23 AUGUST 2008 by Laura Mulvey
and Mark Mark Lewis. 6.30pm
15 Nov - Opening of the 2024 European Psychoanalytic Film Festival - I'm contributing on the
theme of 'journeys'
8 Nov - Raul Ruiz restorations triple bill at Birkbeck BIMI, 43 Gordon Square WIDOWER'S TANGO,
THE WANDERING TELENOVELA and SOCIALIST REALISM.
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/45072/ruiz-returns-three-resurrected-films. See also:
https://bimipresents.blog/
28 Oct - Chairing a session with Grazia Ingravalle and Jiri Anger on Archival Curating at Birkbeck BIMI.
3.30pm in the Birkbeck Cinema
19 Oct - 'Brains, time and money invested for you!’ Ian Christie, Cathy Surowiec and Jeremy
Brooker introduce The Photo-Drama of Creation (1914), ’the first global blockbuster’,
ahead of a major publication in 2025. Film, magic lantern slides and 78rpm recordings
combined for an 8-hour extravaganza which was seen by millions. 11.30am Swedenborg
House, Bloomsbury Way London
3 Oct - Birkbeck's Annual Magic Lantern show, at the Birkbeck Cinema, with Jeremy and Carolyn
Brooker, and Costas Fotopolous. 6pm start
2 Oct - 'The Missing Years' - what was happening in British cinema between 1906-1920?
7.30pm, Kennington Bioscope at the Cinema Museum, Lambeth SE11 4TH UK
I'll be showing some rare material that may help explain why we seem to know so little
about the period when cinema is booming everywhere else...
2024 so far...
28 Jul - Introducing two superb Parajanov restorations as part of Watershed's Cinema Rediscovered:
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors and The Colour of Pomegranates, both looking better
than ever back in the days when they were bootlegs.
15-16 June - Powell-Pressburger Conference Canterbury Christchurch University
Saturday: Keynote and in conversation with Thelma Schoonmaker
12 June - DOMITOR Conference Filmmuseum Vienna
My keynote: 'How Vienna could be considered a cradle of Avant-garde Cinema'
31 May - Ukrainian modernism on Screen BIMI Birkbeck 34 Gordon Square 18.30
24 May - Afterimage: Introducing Raul Ruiz BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square 18.30
17 May - British Silents Festival Symposium Kings College London
'The Great British Mystery: Serials and Popular Cinema before 1920'
3 May - Afterimage and 'Structural Film' BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square 18.30
26 April - 'Women Pioneers of the Essay Film' BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square 18.30
18 April - 'Robert Paul and the Alhambra in the 1890s' Decadent Film Club, Goldsmiths
5 April - A Trip to Tetlapayac - EIN Network Discussion
8 Mar - A Trip to Tetlapayac - my film about Eisenstein in Mexico, and what happened before and after.
With co-director Chiemi Shimada, BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
8 Mar - Launch of Spaces (AUP Key Debates series), with Isobel Armstrong, Mark Broughton, Mark
Cosgrove, Luke McKernan, Patrick Keiller. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048563265/spaces