{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"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": "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": "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"}, {"title": "Second Daughter: She Was Never One Body pt II", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Eastway Baths", "address": "80 Eastway, E9 5JH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eastwaybaths.co.uk/events#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film-video", "film/short-film"], "description": "An art exhibition with a short film screening, presented by Second Daughter at Eastway Baths. The works and films explore the body as a collective swarm, with pieces by Karolina Ursala Urbaniak, Keyannah Isaacs, Lottie Stephens, Holly Lou Jones, Eleanor Cox, Georgia Scholes and Kai Thaís, and films including Cailleach, Uproot, Dancing with Broken Feet, Choir of Catharsis and Know That As I Hex You, I Hug You. Film curation is by Lucy Chappell and artwork curation by Holly Lou Jones and Noda Lichen. Second Daughter celebrates dark cinema, art and performance exploring women's stories, made by anyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-daughter-she-was-never-one-body-pt-ii-60442/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b729ec8bc12fc075cd3fe063f334b03ee0f2cdcd811785077d4da46481f84c6c-1200.webp"}]}