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Fascinating season at Goethe Institute
FILM SERIES: PROMISED LAND
The Suspended Lives of Refugees and Migrants
MON 14 NOV – TUE 13 DEC 2016

Promised Land is a series of events that provides a vital platform to address challenges posed by the current rise of neo-nationalist and populist movements in Europe and the tightening of borders trapping hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants in a state of prolonged suspension. The Promised Land film series focusses on refugees’ and migrants’ state between departure and arrival, a life on hold, but also the persistent hope to escape and reach their destination.



Please visit Goethe website for more information.

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VOLUNTEER and INTERN POSITIONS at RAI FILM FESTIVAL anthropology-ethnography-archaeology 2017

DEADLINE: 4 DECEMBER 2016

Do you love ethnographic film? Would you like to get involved in the organisation of a major ethnographic film festival?

The RAI Film Festival is recruiting volunteers and interns to support the 15th edition of the festival, taking place in Bristol 29 March- 1 April 2017. This is a wonderful opportunity to get involved with the festival, to get to know other volunteers, students and filmmakers, and to gain experience in event organising. And you’ll get a chance to watch some great ethnographic films along the way too! All interns and volunteers will receive a free festival pass.
We are now recruiting for a number of different positions. Find out more on the website:
https://raifilm.org.uk/volunteers-and-interns/

Volunteers and interns – RAI FILM FESTIVAL

A facinating conference on Chantal Ackerman films
organised by our university.
Details-
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events-and-exhibitions/after-chantal-an-international-conference

After Chantal: an international conference - CREAM - University of Westminster, London The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) is hosting a two-day conference that will celebrate and critically explore the work ...

Try catch up a great season in Bertha Dochouse
Bertha DocHouse about an upcoming season of documentaries we’re showing, called The Lives Of Others.

In partnership with the Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival, this season sheds a light on people and communities around the world. From a floating village in Columbia to an all-girls school in Afghanistan, each of these beautiful films tell a unique story that reflects back on our own lives here at home.

very interesting event in `London next month!

Visual Anthropology and the City ​
‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and UCL Institute of Archaeology, Heritage Studies, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists.

Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the 1920s. Ethnography and long-term research facilitated deeper insights into the everyday lives of urban neighborhoods that were often associated with violence, crime and housing problems.

Free and welcome to all!

Organisers
Dr Barbara Knorpp (Anthropologist, UCL) [email protected]
Caterina Sartori (RAI Film Officer) [email protected]

Locations and dates
Friday 14th October 2016 13.00-19.00
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5BT (next to French Theatre Bookshop)

Saturday 15th October 2016 10.00-17.30
Institute of Archaeology, Heritage Studies, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, Lecture Theatre G6LT

very sad news on the death of Abbas Kiarostami. see today's Guardian-
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/04/abbas-kiarostami-palme-dor-winning-iranian-film-maker-dies

Abbas Kiarostami, Palme d'Or-winning Iranian film-maker, dies aged 76 Celebrated Iranian director, whose Taste of Cherry won Cannes’ top prize in 1997, remained in the country after the Islamic revolution and continued to flourish

try and catch up Ackerman's last film

NO HOME MOVIE, the final film of one of cinema’s great innovators Chantal Akerman, documents her final conversations with her mother to create a moving portrait of love in the face of mortality. It screens at from July 1st, starting with a special screening + intro from artist and filmmaker Ruth Noazcek. http://bit.ly/28LSwOZ

NO HOME MOVIE + Intro | DocHouse no_home_movie_-_uk_trailer NO HOME MOVIE + Intro Introduction before screening Friday 1st July at 18:20 Dir: Chantal Akerman Belgium / France / 2015 / 115mins "Sublime" - Cineuropa"An intimate self-reflection... a tender, haunting film." - Los Angeles Times One of cinema's most innovative figures, C...

Tonight in Doc house cinema

UNLOCKING THE CAGE
Dir. D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
Opens 14 June

TONIGHT! LAST FEW TICKETS LEFT FOR Q&A WITH D.A. PENNEBAKER, CHRIS HEGEDUS AND STEVE WISE. BOOK NOW.

New exciting work by Sheffield Fringe in June. drtails-http://sheffieldfringe.com/news/

NEWS | Sheffield Fringe

If you missed the last film by ` Mark cousins- in our Regent Street Cinema next week!

I Am Belfast

The latest film by celebrated filmmaker Mark Cousins sees him cast his painterly eye on his home town, Belfast. Cousins meets a woman who claims to be city itself. Serene and graceful, the woman, guides him around the streets on an emotional journey through the rich, complex and often tragic history of Northern Ireland’s capital.

Wednesday May 11th
8.30pm

This weekend
in our cinema in Regent street a real gem of a double bill
focusing on two fascinating individuals, both incredibly important to 20th Century art.

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989.
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is the warm and inspiring portrait of an heiress to a family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement and created one of the most important collections of modern art.

Friday May 6th
8.30pm

Saturday May 7th
2.00pm / 3.55pm
6.30pm / 8.25pm

In our Cinema in Regent street two special documentaries-

The Punk Singer / Speed Sisters

Powerful pair of documentaries about similarly trail-blazing women in very different circumstances.

Punk Singer is about Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, who rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement.
Speed Sisters is about the first all women racing car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank these 5 women race with equal measures of fearlessness and glamour.

Monday April 25th
6.30pm / 8.10pm