Tag: activism
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Now on its seventh run, the Queer East Festival has firmly established itself as London’s go-to place for East Asian cinema that explores the queer condition. Participating in the festival’s Future Film Curators Lab, Shimeng Wang presented Acting Up, a series of shorts centred on the relationship between queerness and performance. For many queer people,…
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Goldmiths CCA pieces together a the radical history of Paper Tiger Television in a recent retrospective on the collective. I am someone who enjoys nothing more than returning home after a long day at work, sinking into my sofa, and letting the soft, hazy glow of whatever trash TV show I’m currently consumed by occupy…
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Returning for this year’s London Palestine Film Festival, Yasmin Fedda’s 2020 documentary about two men forcibly ‘disappeared’ by the Syrian Government, led by the now-ousted Bashar al-Assad. Five years after its release, the hope and perseverance of their loved ones to find answers burns as bright as ever. The film jumps between the lives of…
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Roland Nurier’s minor-release documentary The Tank and the Olive Tree about the history of Palestine passed cinemagoers in 2019. Revived for a screening in Sands Films Studios for the London Palestine Film Festival 2025 last month, the film acts as a catalyst for conversation, with the bittersweetness of renewing its appeal, yet through the vein…
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Over 150 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have voted to strike from 26th November until 2nd December. Of the 87.72% turnout at the ballot box, 98% voted for industrial action. The move comes after Tate’s workforce suffered redundancies this year in the second restructuring since 2020, according to the PCS. They…
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Between 1970 and 1972, a group of filmmakers (Richard Mordaunt, Mary, Kelly, Marc Karlin, Humphry Trevelyan and James Scott) working under the moniker Berwick Street Film Collective filmed women who spent nights cleaning the office buildings around London. This November, to mark the 50th anniversary of Nightcleaners, LUX are sharing the film online until the…
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In his haunting new short film The Boy with White Skin (2024), French filmmaker Simon Panay continues his deep, almost anthropological exploration of Africa’s gold mining communities. The 15-minute film sees an albino boy entrusted to a group of gold miners by his father. The boy’s presence and voice in the mine are believed to…
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London Palestine Film Festival, which will return to the capital later next month, has released its programme. While geographically centred on the land of Palestine, the programme takes us through melancholic, didactic, comedic, and, most of all, thought-provoking films that bridge the over 2000-mile gap to London. Through these many methods, the films tackle the…
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The ubiquity of images outside of art and film is something we often associate with the modern age. Smartphones, LED advertisements, and CCTV are increasingly at the centre of discussions in art exhibitions and films. But the ideas that form these exhibitions predate the technologies that facilitate them. The latest installation at Hackney’s Peer Gallery,…
