{"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + little boy", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "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": ["film", "literature"], "description": "An evening celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's book 'The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture', paired with the London premiere of James Benning's film 'little boy'. Balsom's essay collection argues that film culture thrives on the margins, from visual art and documentary to experimental and repertory cinema. Benning, an artist and filmmaker central to the book, uses popular songs, political speeches and architectural models to traverse decades of U.S. history. The film, winner of the grand prize at Paris's Cinéma du Réel festival, looks at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-little-boy-36634/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/defc09f0ffe6ab0a447c8313f8c817c5aea0017073c0563e1ac5a5ecaab3940e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "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"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema-38494/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tzkrti.com/en/events/4873", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of two films: Jumana Manna's 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' and Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza', shown as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. LUX and Mosaic Rooms are collaborating on the event, organised by Filmlab Palestine for its 4th edition. 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' (2010, 21') sketches a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, barber shops and body parlours and inspired by Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising'. 'With Hasan in Gaza' (2025, 106') is a filmic journal of a journey the filmmaker made in 2001 from the north to the south of Gaza, searching for the man with whom he had spent seven months in an Israeli prison, capturing daily life amid moments of vibrancy and darker realities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-obliv-37113/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-oblivion-with-hasan-in-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67c9f6fdfb102dda26d16327e9bb5f77f5a2f4d17578863558e396b6471bf114-600.webp"}, {"title": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1212", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. Curated by Abel Holsborough, it reflects on the representation of Black British histories in film archives and how selective memories are preserved. Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Film Africa 2026", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/africa", "film"], "description": "Film Africa 2026 is a festival of African cinema taking place across London, opening and closing at BFI Southbank. It is run by the Royal African Society and returns from 23 October to 1 November 2026. The programme brings together new voices, established filmmakers and essential works from across Africa and its diasporas, spanning features, documentaries, shorts, retrospectives and conversations. Highlights include a special screening and conversation honouring Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir, whose documentaries Caméra d'Afrique and Caméra Arabe are landmark works on African and Arab cinemas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-africa-2026-74233/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e08461265938bcfe1b85ae17682528e1ec42c84bdc12594b74e6547e8cebeaa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026 returns to London this autumn for its 13th edition, bringing an exciting selection of music and arts documentaries to cinemas across the city. The festival is fiercely independent and rooted in a DIY spirit, celebrating the artists, outsiders, scenes and stories that shape music culture across genres, generations and musical movements from around the world. It began life in 2013 as the UK's Music & Arts Documentary Film Festival, an arts discovery fest championing outlier music, arts and subculture documentaries often ignored by risk-averse film programmers. The Garden Cinema screens festival films in partnership with Doc'n Roll, whose mission is discovering, exhibiting and championing compelling music documentaries and the performers, labels, scenes and stories they celebrate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/docn-roll-film-festival-2026-39290/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/docn-roll-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7e85366a62cf3f3acb3f2961bde09a1f3d5921b4d28e74103340646b357ddfe-600.webp"}]}