Events & News

2024 so far...

13 Dec 2024 6.30pm

Final BIMI screening of the term: Hitchcock's last silent THE MANXMAN (1929), Stephen Horne's new orchestral score. 

29 Nov 2024 6.30pm

Birkbeck BIMI: DRAWING, ETC on Calum Storrie; and 23 AUGUST 2008 by Laura Mulvey and Mark Mark Lewis. 

15 Nov 2024

Opening of the 2024 European Psychoanalytic Film Festival  - I'm contributing on  the theme of 'journeys'.

8 Nov 2024

Raul Ruiz restorations triple bill at Birkbeck BIMI, 43 Gordon Square WIDOWER'S TANGO,

THE WANDERING TELENOVELA and SOCIALIST REALISM. See also: https://bimipresents.blog.

28 Oct 2024 

Chairing a session with Grazia Ingravalle and Jiri Anger on Archival Curating at Birkbeck BIMI, 3.30pm in the Birkbeck Cinema.

19 Oct 2024

 '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 2024

Birkbeck's Annual Magic Lantern show, at the Birkbeck Cinema, with Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker, and Costas Fotopolous. 6pm start.

2 Oct  2024

'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...

28 Jul 2024

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 2024

Powell-Pressburger Conference Canterbury Christchurch University

Saturday: Keynote and in conversation with Thelma Schoonmaker

12 June 2024

DOMITOR Conference Filmmuseum Vienna

My keynote: 'How Vienna could be considered a cradle of Avant-garde Cinema'

31 May 2024

Ukrainian modernism on Screen BIMI Birkbeck 34 Gordon Square 18.30

24 May 2024

Afterimage: Introducing Raul Ruiz BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square 18.30

17 May 2024

British Silents Festival Symposium Kings College London

'The Great British Mystery: Serials and Popular Cinema before 1920'

3 May 2024

Afterimage and 'Structural Film' BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square 18.30

26 April 2024

'Women Pioneers of the Essay Film' BIMI Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square 18.30

18 April 2024

'Robert Paul and the Alhambra in the 1890s' Decadent Film Club, Goldsmiths

5 April 2024

A Trip to Tetlapayac - EIN Network Discussion

8 Mar 2024

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 2024

Launch of Spaces (AUP Key Debates series), with Isobel Armstrong, Mark Broughton, Mark

Cosgrove, Luke McKernan, Patrick Keiller. Link here.