City, Essay, Film

About

City, Essay, Film is a series of discussions and screenings hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory to examine the concept and practice of the ‘urban essay film’.

Bringing together filmmakers, researchers, and critics, this one-day symposium will consider the interstices of literary, cinematic and urban culture through the lenses of pioneering film essayists and a new generation of artists producing experimental documentary works as polemic and critique on the city.

City, Essay, Film will continue throughout June and July with a series of screenings at Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury. A launch screening takes place on Thursday 6 June, with other screenings following on 8 June, 10 June, 24 June and 9 July.

Keynotes:

• Nora Alter (Temple University)
• Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)

Speakers:

• Adam O'Brien (University of Reading)
• Ayo Akingbade (filmmaker)
• Brenda Hollweg (University of Leeds)
• Claire Thomson (UCL)
• Clive Nwonka (LSE)
• Eva Weber (filmmaker)
• Henrietta Williams (UCL)
• Karen Alexander (curator and writer)
• Lee Grieveson (UCL)
• Martin Abbott and Jennifer Minner (Cornell University)
• Matthew Beaumont (UCL)
• Michael Pigott (University of Warwick)
• Mike Latto (Bournemouth University)
• Richard Bolisay (University of the Philippines Film Institute)
• Sergio Márquez (filmmaker and researcher)
• Situated Practice MA students: Luofei Dong, Eloise Maland, Valeria Muteri, Anastasia Perahia Dede, Jerneja Rebernak, Jose Rivas Palma and Ignacio Saavedra Valenzuela (UCL)
• Stella Bruzzi (UCL)

Part of the UCL Festival of Culture and London Festival of Architecture 2019.