{"title": "Framing Colonial Film Archives: Histories and Afterlives of Indian collections", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/67633", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/archive", "history/colonialism"], "description": "An evening of film screenings, discussion and debate focused on the audiovisual heritage of the Indian sub-continent. It is presented by the Colonial Reels project team, who report back from their symposium on South Asian archive footage held in the British and Indian national film archives. Films from the British Film Institute, the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection and Wellcome Collection will be introduced by project members including Imruh Bakari, Haroon Forde, Jacqueline Maingard, Rosa Méthol, Emma Sandon and Angela Saward. Themes include colonial film historiography, indigenous erasure, plantations and refineries, the ecologies of the colonial short film, and the afterlives of colonial reels in British archives, followed by drinks and nibbles in the cinema foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/framing-colonial-film-archives-histories-and-afterlives-of-i-80524/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67633/framing-colonial-film-archives-histories-and-afterlives-of-indian-collections", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/short-film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A screening night presenting short horror films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation. 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Kalaallisut artist Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller presents his Super 8 visual poetry, followed by nine Turtle Island films including a Louis Riel historical drama, animated spray-painted murals, Naskapi vampirism, and Cree astronomer 'Wilfred Buck's Star Stories'. Native Spirit is the UK's first and longest-running independent film festival promoting Native filmmakers, artists, narrative and visual sovereignty, and languages worldwide, founded by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil. 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The installation shows the mass movement of plants, people, animals, metals, diseases and ideas between the Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Europe from the 1400s onwards, known as the Columbian Exchange. Across five screens, imagery of deserts, ice fields, mountains and seas is set to a soundtrack of nature sounds, opera and poetry, asking how migration, colonialism and empire have shaped the planet and its legacies today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcadia-by-sir-john-akomfrah-37307/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87cfdafa70afbf36f276ba78f0bbea4e9f99d2506264574d3eb39780c75ad3e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Cornwallis Cloth: Championing untold stories of WW2 in the Caribbean", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "Free (Booking Required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/75682?catID=70888&", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "An evening at the Visitor Centre with a viewing of the Cornwallis Cloth exhibition and film installation, followed by a panel discussion. Sweet Patootee Arts and the Old Royal Naval College Interpretation Team explore how oral testimony and creative research can break through archival silence to restore long silenced histories of British Caribbean lives during the Second World War. From 6pm to 7.30pm visitors can view the exhibition, with the talk and Q&A running from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. 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The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. Attendance is free but registration is required, with seating allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-kno-43667/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a3032d06453f61472b5faf6331ace0c9f76c3a2e2be8952a7d176992e71c768-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://serpentinegalleries.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "A major solo exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North Gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment. Over three decades, the New Delhi-based artist has created lyrical films and multi-video installations moving between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. Shaped by the history of the Indian subcontinent, his work investigates the legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, bearing witness to displacement, power, violence, justice and memory. 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Made by Férid Boughedir, it traces the rise of African filmmaking after independence, following a generation of directors who challenged colonial images of the continent and told their own stories. Through archival footage, film excerpts and interviews with pioneering directors, it charts the movement's political and social struggles and its search for new cinematic voices and forms. The film remains an essential portrait of the birth of modern African cinema and of the filmmakers who changed how Africa was seen on screen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/camera-dafrique-36647/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/camera-dafrique/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c348eb8d9b78c8fee961044f31e4e42661c8ee66f13913590b59c4ff8e125f91-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present", "start": "2026-11-11T09:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T17:00:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Adult: £60 | Member: £55 | Early Career Researcher/Student: £30", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.rmg.co.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=RMGCON&c=MHCON", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/maritime"], "description": "A two-day interdisciplinary conference on marginalised maritime histories from around 1500 to the present. It is co-convened by Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. The conference highlights new research on communities and individuals historically underrepresented in maritime narratives, from workers and families to navigators and knowledge-keepers. The fee covers lunches, refreshments and an evening book launch for Black and Asian Seafarers: A Visual History.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conference-maritime-histories-from-the-margins-people-places-39610/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/conference-maritime-histories-margins-people-places-practices", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611a6bbca41bb79388ca8ea847147219d1cb99d7df33e9425818f356dd21db77-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Study Day – Sharing Strategies: caring for artist moving image in the margins", "start": "2026-11-06T09:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free to attend", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSWUyxNvmRdidEbJpLOVuIP6TCWlQuMhsPC8dxN6ebaY-4LQ/viewform?usp=dialog", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/archives"], "description": "A study day of workshops, presentations and a roundtable on practical and ethical questions around acquiring, storing and presenting digital artists' moving image. It is delivered by LUX in partnership with UCL's Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media MSc, as part of the programme 'Sharing Strategies: Caring for moving image in the margins', with support from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund. The day is open to archivists, conservators, artist-filmmakers and anyone interested in conserving artists' moving image, including informal and grassroots collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-37115/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-in-the-margins/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48a0048e1be78867b62680233f8df905a6f1d657d9150128039feab6e3a246c4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Research in Focus: Biting Flies, Investigating a Historic Colonial Collection", "start": "2026-11-04T13:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Grant Museum of Zoology", "address": "University Street 21, WC1E 6DE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biting-flies-investigating-a-historic-colonial-collection-tickets-2002065784656?_gl=1%2A1b5culk%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTU0ODYyODY4MS4xNzkyNTcyNzM4%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3OTI1NzI3MzgkbzEkZzEkdDE3OTI1NzI3ODQkajE0JGwwJGgw&aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "science/biology"], "description": "A free lunchtime talk followed by questions and answers at the Grant Museum of Zoology. It is led by Maria Dragoi, a second year PhD student based between the Natural History Museum and UCL's Institute of Archaeology, and is part of the Research in Focus series of researcher-led public talks. Her talk investigates biting flies from a historic colonial collection, and she is keen to think about critical cataloguing in natural history collections and the stories specimens can tell. You can book a place or simply drop in on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/research-in-focus-biting-flies-investigating-a-historic-colo-36316/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engage/events/2026/nov/research-focus-biting-flies-investigating-historic-colonial-collection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d46c048c4eaedce5a2e6a41ca4811ae2627adeeeb5bb8526a065df54d4f77cf1-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + Panel Discussion", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction/essay", "film"], "description": "A book launch and panel discussion celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture. The panel brings together Erika Balsom, Lola Lemke, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Jonathan Romney. The book argues that film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art and documentary meets experimentalism. In response, the panelists will discuss key transformations and tendencies in the last quarter-century of vanguard filmmaking.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion-36635/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64099e2d8d7358083cb0e233031a3e0857335b34b6bf1c2f04bf62dc8707fc64-1200.webp"}]}