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Coming next ...
1 Sep - Introducing The Life and
Death of Col. Blimp at BFI South
bank as part of Deborah Kerr
tribute season, 7.50 pm.
21 Sept - Cultural Impact seminar
at San Sebastian Film Festival
1 Oct - Speaking about UK film
studies at Paris Biennale
10 Oct - Symposium on 'History
and Film' with Robert Rosenstone
at University of St Andrews.
4 Nov - discussing Eisenstein's
The Battleship Potemkin at the
University of Essex.
10 Nov - Stockholm University
talk on archives in the digital era
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And recently ...
19 Jul - Cultural Impact seminar for
UK Film Council, with Screen Wales,
in Cardiff
12 Jul - Introduced Cameraman, Craig
McCall's film about Jack Cardiff, at
Saffron Walden Film Society
9 Jul - 'The Captains and the Kings
depart': early imperial departure
and arrival films, talk at Colonial
Film Conference, Birkbeck Cinema.
[Frames fron a rare print of Robt Paul's
Diamond Jubilee films, awaiting restoration
by BFI National Archive]
9 Jul - A Room and a Half gets a
big-screen outing at the Empire
Leicester Sq, introduced by poet
Elaine Feinstein and me, and contiues
on a smaller Empire screen. Go see!
5 Jul - Introduced Mizoguchi's Ugetsu
Monogatari for NFTS at BFI Southbank
5 Jul - Ghosts in the Machine: Patrick
Keiller's explorations of the
Image-World', presentation at
Paris III Summer School, Salle
Vasari, INHA, Paris I online
at http://epresence.univ-paris3.fr/1/watch/40.aspx
27-30 Jun - Making an Impression
Led the Europa Cinemas Workshop
at Bologna Cinema Ritrovato Fest. see
report at http://www.europa-cinemas.org/en/actions/ya/seminaire-de-bologne.php
23 Jun - review of Francis Ford Coppola's
great new film Tetro for BBC Radio 3's
Nightwaves.
20 Jun - Cultural Impact seminar for UKFC
at Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival
13 Jun - 'What is a picture? Film as
defined by law before 1907' - paper
at Domitor Conference, Univ of
Toronto/Ryerson Univ, Toronto
9 Jun - Cultural Impact of UK Film
seminar at QFT, Belfast
27 May - 'Que voyons-nous dans
les films? Lecture on psychological
and neuroscientific approaches to
understanding 'what we see in films'
at the École nationale supérieure
d'architecture Paris-Malaquais.
21 May - Talk at Arts Week Symposium
at Birkbeck on 'Art and Money': 'Exclusive!
How a Danish film company changed the
international film business'
16 May - 'Digital Tango': panelist at
European Audiovisual Observatory seminar
Cannes Film Festival
12 May - I presented an overview
of Jack Cardiff's career as DOP and
director, at BFI Southbank (and appear
in Craig McCall's documentary Cameraman)
(below: Cardiff shot his longest takes on
Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, 1949)
10 May - 'From Muswell Hill to the Moon',
a talk about early London filmmaking at the
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House
(below: R W Paul's The ? Motorist (1906), made
in Muswell Hill)
7 May - A Room and a Half opened and
I interviewed Andrey Khrzhanovsky at
the Curzon Mayfair about his great part-
animated fantasy on the life of Joseph Brodsky
3 May - I broke surface in BBC4's Dive, Dive,
Dive!, a doc about the enduring fascination of
submarine movies (rpt 4, 5 May)
25 Apr - Introduced Sokurov's Russian
Ark at Watershed in Bristol, as part of their
Decalogue programme on the best films of the
Noughties. See my interview at
5 April - 'Believing pixels: has digital
changed our relation to films?' , a talk at the
inaugural conference of Cambridge University's
new Centre for Material Texts
1 Apr - Introduced Lean's The Passionate
Friends at BFI Southbank
22 Mar - 'Images of Britishness' - launched
an exhibition of Polish posters for British films at
BAFTA
20 Mar - 'London's Pleasure Zones' - paper
on the representation of London in film at Gorizia
Spring School Filmforum 2010, Italy.
15 Mar - Introducing Powell and
Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale at BFI
Southbank for NFTS
7 Mar - Film & TV Walk around Muswell Hill.
Lost cinemas, the art-deco Odeon, site of R W.
Paul's studio and Ally Pally, birthplace of British
television.
6 Mar - Parajanov - a Fortunate Man?
Introduced Parajanov Symposium at BFI Southbank
5 Mar - 'Frozen music: rediscovering
the still image from the 20s to the
90s' - talk at PhotoFilm conference at
Tate Modern
4 Mar - Introducing Paradjanov's
Shadows of Our Forgotten
Ancestors, 6.30 at BFI Southbank
12 Feb - Bach on Screen - an illustrated
'interval talk on Radio 3 at 19.50 that ranges from
Fantasia (and that piece!) to Fischinger and Straub-
Huillet (below).
5 Feb - 'Blind Spots: what about the history
that doesn't get screened?' Nick Burton
Memorial Lecture at Canterbury Christ
Church University on history and film
2 Feb - Speaker at 'Kino Climates' panel,
Rotterdam International Film Festival
1 Feb - Introduced Bergman's The Seventh
Seal for NFTS, 6.30 at BFI Southbank
31 Jan - 'Just what was modern about
Modernism? And why was film so
important to it?' An illustrated introduction to
modernist film at Cambridge Arts Cinema, linked
with Lutz Becker's exhibition at Kettle's Yard
Gallery, Modern Times: Responding to Chaos
See also the exhibition at the
new London Film Museum
Charlie Chaplin - the Great Londoner' (from
5 Jan, Belevedere Road, Waterloo)
2009
17 Dec - 'What Do We See in Films?
Gave the Keynote Richard Gregory lecture at
Bristol Vision Institute's inaugural symposium,
University of Bristol.
6 Dec - I helping to launch The YouTube
Reader, a great collection of essays exploring
the implications of YouTube, distributed in the
UK by Wallflower, at their cafe-gallery
Cinephilia West,171 Westbourne Grove, W11
3 Dec- Keynote at Polish cinema conference at
Cornerhouse, Manchester: 'Poland - but not as
we knew it', about some of the 'deviant' Polish
films and filmmakers of the 60s, including Has's
The Saragossa Manuscript (below).
30 Nov - talk in Brighton:'Britain's Lost Cinema:
the Ones that Got Away'. about unmade films
planned by Michael Powell, David Lean (below,
John Box design for Nostromo) and Terry Gilliam,
speculating on how these might have affected
the directors' reputations. University of Brighton
20-22 Nov: Europa Cinemas Annual Conference
in Warsaw: Europe's exhibitors facing the digital
future. I presented a survey of European
websites that try to guide intending filmgoers,
and asked whethernthese favour studio releases
at the expense of European films.
17 Nov - Bristol University Art lectures 'Three
Celebrations in Eisenstein' (for details see link)
2 Nov - Talk at the BFI Library, in the series
Researchers' Tales, about work on the recent
UKFC report on the Cultural Impact of British
Film (see link)
30 Oct - Took part in a panel at the European
Psychoanalytic Film Festival at BAFTA in London,
discussing Alexei Popogrebsky's seductive Simple
Things (2007) with the director and Igor Kadyrov
24 Oct - I chaired a panel discussing Gideon
Koppel's wonderful docu-fiction about a
Welsh village, Sleep Furiously (below)
at the Birkbeck Cinema
14 Oct - previewed Anthony Asquith's
restored Underground (1928) showing
in the London Film Festival on 23 Oct,
on Radio 3's Nightwaves
29 Sept - Birkbeck MA in History of Film
& Visual Media Core Course started with
Magic Lantern show, by Jeremy Booker,
with live accompaniment by Stephen Horne -
who accompanied Abel Gance's anti-war
landmark J'Accuse (1918) in Pordenone and
at the Barbican.
22 Sept - Jack Cardiff: Painter with
Light - a tribute to Jack, with clips from
some of his best films, at the Cambridge
Film Festival.
15 Sept - 'Defining the Look': talk about
John Box's production design in the 70s and
80s at Cinephilia, Wallflower's new film cafe
on Westbourne Grove, at 7.00.
14 Sept - Introducing Godard's Masculin-
Feminin at BFI Southbank for National Film
and Television School's Passport to Cinema
11-13 Sept - Screendance workshop at
Brighton University
6-12 Sept - Synapsis Summer School,
Bertinoro, Italy. I led a seminar on this year's
theme, 'Shadows', in cinema, with Giulio Iacoli.
This ranged over shadow-theatre and 20s
Expressionism, up to 'shadow' Gay and Black
identities in film.
4 Sept - Keynote talk at the University of
Winchester's conferenceFraming Film -
Cinema and the Visual Arts: 'Crafting
Worlds: the work of the production
designer'
4 August - launch of my new book on John
Box at BFI Southbank, with an illustrated
survey of John's career, followed by a rare
screening of one of his most impressive later
films, Michael Mann's The Keep.
11 July, University of Bristol conference
on Colour and the Moving Image. In a
keynote, 'Why do we think we see in colour
anyway?, I put the case for a cognitive
approach to distinguishing the perception of
colour and b/w, which didn't convince everyone,
but pointed towards some experimental work I
hope to develop. (see 17 Dec above)
6 July, University of Paris Summer School.
Plenary on Screens Across the City, from
anoramas to urban display networks, via
'cinema'
1 July BFI Southbank As part of One Giant
Leap, I indulged my love of Jules Verne and
astronomy in an illustrated tour of 16 - 19c lunar
fantasies, Trips to the Moon, including
Offenbach and Melies's great 1902 film.
27 June - 1 July: led Europa Cinemas
Workshop for exhibitors at Bologna Cinema
Ritrovato Festival on 'The Challenge of
Generations'.
18 June - led a walk around film-related
sites in Haringey centred on Green Lanes.
Including locations for Face, Long Good Friday and
the ex-Premier Cinema in Turnpike Lane.
9/10 June - US archivist Paul Spehr was in the
UK as joint guest of Birkbeck and BFI Southbank
to talk about W K L Dickson, the subject of his
superb new biography, The Man Who Made
Movies (Libbey). Paul presented Dickson and
Edison films at the Barbican, BFI Southbank and
at Birkbeck.
7/8 June - British Silents Festival and the
Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain
conference. During these two adjoining events,
I led a walk around early cinema sites in
central London, then interviewed American
conductor Gillian Anderson after her brilliant
performance of the original music for Griffith's
Way Down East, and gave a paper about
musical accompaniment in London film
shows before 1914, at the Soundsconference.
5/6 June - European Experimental
Television symposium at Birkbeck Cinema, with
controbutions by Dorota Ostrowska, Michael
Temple, Mike Allen and me, and Laura Mulvey
introducing her and Peter Wollen's experimental
C4 drama The Bad Sister. Papers from this
forthcoming in Critical Studies in Television (MUP)
5 June, Tate Britain - panel with Horace Ove
and Colin Prescod about the 70s independent film
scene and Pressure, as part of The Story of
London.
3 June National Gallery, London, an
illustrated talk in connection with the Picasso
exhibition: Picasso and Film: An Uncon-
summated Affair?, which considered why
Picasso didn't make any films despite his early
and continuing fascination with the medium.
7 May - Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3, discussion
between me and Michael Billington about 'removing
the fourth wall' in theatre and cinema.
10 May Watershed, Bristol I introduced
Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and
Death as part of Pictures in the Mind, discussing
the accuracy of its neurological casework for
1946.
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