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The Transparent “I”: Authority and Authorship in Anthropological Filmmaking
A collaborative film screening between KONTEKST Collective and RAI Film: The programme comes together to highlight how contemporary tendencies in ethnographic filmmaking contrast conventional approaches by embracing subjectivity and playing with form, leading the audience to reflect on and look beyond common perspectives within the discipline.
Anthropocene? — Film screening + panel fundraiser at Finch Community Cinema
An evening of ethnographic and experimental screenings and conversations, taking the debated buzzword/theory as a starting point to provoke discussion around entangled relationships with climate and environment.
The Outsider's Perspective by New Alterations
Curated by Goke
Curated programme of short films that examine how foreign viewpoints reframe the “elsewhere,” turning acts of looking into acts of meaning.
PAUSE: PART 1 — Caribbean Film Screening + hurricane Melissa fundraiser
Curated by Ishy Pryce-Parchment
An evening of film, conversation and collective witnessing, honouring Caribbean stories of resilience. Proceeds will go toward supporting Solidarity Yaad International in Jamaica.
Affirming Carnival as Embodied Memory of Social Struggles — KONTEKST & CVA PUBLIC PROGRAMME: NOV25
Film screening & conversation with Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero.
Colombian artist-filmmaker presents film La Nave (2021) and discusses affect and collective liberation focused visual anthropology.
(Un)borderings at Finch Community Cinema
A collectively curated film screening and conversation organised by KONTEKST Collective member Aria Danaparamita
Join us for short films that untangle borders, followed by a conversation on how to cultivate more care and justice for migrants and refugees.
Voices Across Borders: Stories of Nepali Identity, Resistance, and Reclaimed Narratives — KONTEKST & CVA PUBLIC PROGRAMME: OCT25
Film screening and conversation with Anusha Thulung Rai, Sabhyata Garbuja Pun, Aditya Pokharel and Sapana Sanjeevani
An intimate exploration of how marginalized Nepali communities, both home and abroad, resist erasure and fight for recognition, using visual media to record their struggle.
NEW ALTERATIONS CRIT CLUB x KONTEKST OPEN DAY
Peer-to-peer feedback group for work-in-progress multimedia projects.
BLOOM. THEN BLOOM AGAIN — KONTEKST PRIDE MONTH 2025 SPECIAL SCREENING
BLOOM. THEN BLOOM AGAIN — KONTEKST PRIDE MONTH 2025
An exploration of queer grief, joy and second adolescence through the works of up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and a cult classic.
Organised by Sana Nurlan, co-facilitated by Jo Watters, Huiqi He and Arti Siudem.
For queer people, time isn’t linear. We bloom, explore, then bloom again. Just like summer flowers, we celebrate our lives together in Pride Month. On 18 June, join KONTEKST to celebrate our queer existence that’s just like summer flowers.
Those who are in the LGBTQIA+ community often experience what’s called a queer adolescence, where we embody our queer selves after the struggles of the first adolescence. During the first adolescence, many of us face homophobia, transphobia and prejudice. We might also feel isolated because of our gender nonconformity. We live by our own timelines, instead of going by societal expectations set by straight, cisgender standards. Not all flowers have to bloom at the same time, some bloom, then bloom again.
KONTEKST aims to not only celebrate queer joy, but also queer grief. The grief of feeling alone, or the grief of finally feeling right in our skins, or the grief of not catching up to the expectations of the outside world placed upon us. Find us at Atlas Cinema this Pride Month, let both joy and grief bind us together in a flower bouquet we gift ourselves.
FREE ENTRY!!! Donations on the day welcome though so that we can use the money raised for future events.
PROGRAMME:
Golden Voice
by Mars Verrone
2022
In Golden Voice a transgender man returns to the village forty years after the Cambodian genocide, where he not only survived but miraculously found queer and transgender community, including the love of his life.
Becoming a Man
by Oliver Lyric
2025
In Becoming a Man, director Oliver Lyric documented the unseen parts of the story during process of using testosterone and becoming a man. With Oliver’s voice and visual language, we enter a zone where the audience sees the soul beyond the body.
CONTENT WARNING: blood, needles
Lust Envy
by Aisha Boudjillouli
2024
In Lust Envy, director and animator Aisha Boudjillouli used animation to explore the moment where one can experience two emotions striking at once.
Passaggio
by Amiko Li
2023
Passaggio is an experimental film depicting a queer teenager's journey of self-discovery and voice-finding odyssey in China. Going through the unsettling phase of voice transition and subsequently losing his voice, the protagonist must plunge into the world's myriad sounds, observing, absorbing, and imitating them.
Shinjuku boys
by Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams
1995
In Shinjuku Boys we time travel back to the 90s in Japan, exploring the lives of three non-binary and transgender men who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. The three protagonists discuss their romantic relationships, their relationships with their parents, their gender presentations, how they understand their own genders, and their different outlooks on life.
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IN:KONTEKST vol.1: LAUNCH
Sat 17 October 2026
The Jago, LondonA get-together of London-based grassroots collectives and practitioners, organised for the Antiuniversity Festival 2026.
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KONTEKST FILM FESTIVAL 2026: ENTANGLEMENTS
Sat 18 - Sun 19 July 2026
Conway Hall, LondonA two-day grassroots festival of ethnographic and experimental film, art and thought exploring multispecies encounters and relationships.
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VOLATILE WORLDS seminar series (CVA collab)
June 2026
Helm Studios, LondonA 4-part seminar series exploring how images are produced through extractive infrastructures.
Collaboration with the Centre for Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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THE TRANSPARENT "I": Authority and Authorship in Anthropological Filmmaking (RAI Film collab)
Thu 23.04.2026
The Cinema Museum, LondonA collaborative film screening between KONTEKST Collective and the Royal Anthropological Institute:
The programme comes together to highlight how contemporary tendencies in ethnographic filmmaking contrast conventional approaches by embracing subjectivity and playing with form, leading the audience to reflect on and look beyond common perspectives within the discipline.
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MEMORY, MOVEMENT, AND لعنة الوعي
Thursday 26.02.2026 18:00 20:00
The School of Ancestral Arts, London
We invite you to an evening of art and guided conversation in support of Palestinian life and futures.The event includes a fundraiser for Farah, a journalist student and youth advocate and family member to our extended community from Gaza.
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THIS WILL BE YOU: FILMMAKER PANELS AND WORKSHOPS
SAT 21.02.2026 13:00 18:00
LNZRT Works / Unit 22, 230 Dalston Lane, E8 1LA, London
'This WILL Be You' is aimed at people looking at/already building a career in film. We’ll be hearing from early-mid career film creatives on their journey, work, and top tips. -
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HOW TO BECOME A PROPAGANDIST BY READING COLLECTIVELY? (KONTEKST & CVA)
Monday 26.01.2026 18:30-19:30
Anthropology Department (room G8), Goldsmiths University, LondonOur seminar welcomed Florenza Deniz Incirli, a London and Cyprus based artist and researcher. Florenza led an open discussion on collaborative and horizontal pedagogical practices.
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ANTHROPOCENE?
THU 9 .01.2026. 19:00-22:00
Finch Cinema, Finch Cafe, LondonAn evening of ethnographic and experimental screenings and conversations, taking the debated buzzword/theory as a starting point to provoke discussion around entangled relationships with climate and environment.
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AFFIRMING CARNIVAL AS EMBODIED MEMORY OF SOCIAL STRUGGLES (KONTEKST & CVA Autumn 2025)
THU 16.10.2025 18:00-20:00
Media Research Building, Goldsmiths University campus, LondonColombian artist-filmmaker presents film La Nave (2021) and discusses affect and collective liberation focused visual anthropology.
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VOICES ACROSS BORDERS (KONTEKST & CVA Autumn 2025)
THU 16.10.2025 18:00-20:00
Media Research Building, Goldsmiths University campus, LondonAn intimate exploration of how marginalized Nepali communities, both home and abroad, resist erasure and fight for recognition, using visual media to record their struggle.
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NEW ALTERATIONS CRIT CLUB x KONTEKST OPEN DAY
WED 24.09.2025 19:00-22:00
80-20 Wines, 56 Peckham Rye, London SE15 4JRKONTEKST COLLAB
We open the autumn events season with a peer-to-peer film crit for emerging artists and makers. Come get to know us, watch and discuss films by emerging filmmakers!
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Pins & Needles: Visual Anthropology as an Art of Interruption
THU 18.09.2025 18:00-10:00
Fri 19.09.2025 18:00-10:00
RHB Cinema, Goldsmiths Campus, New Cross, London, SE14 6NWTo us, pins and needles is an embodied feeling that sits under your skin, a phantom sensation, it's strange and uncomfortable yet also recognisable, it's your body telling you it's time to move…
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ECHOES OF THE EMPIRE
THU 15.07.2025 11:00-17:00
FRI 16.07.2025 11:00-17:00
UCL East Marshgate, E20 2AE LondonCollab with ArchivesDie Magazine
Join scholars & artists to uncover South Asian seafarer histories through talks & a soundscaped walking tour in East London.
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BLOOM. THEN BLOOM AGAIN.
WED 18.06.2025 19:00-21:00
Atlas Cinema, SW9 7FA LondonPride Month 2025 special - an exploration of queer grief, joy and second adolescence through the works of up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ filmmakers followed by a cult classic.
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DO WE BELONG TO THE SEA?
THU 12.06.2025 19:00-21:00
Atlas Cinema SW9 7FA LondonUnfinished, KONTEKST Collective, and Action Against Detention and Deportations present films, conversation and fundraiser on Gaza, Sudan, and the politics of migration
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FILM CRIT CLUB #3
THU 5.06.2025 18:00-20:00
Online via teamsInformal monthly peer-to-peer feedback sessions where we share project drafts, talk through each others’ works in progress, and exchange ideas for their development.
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FILM CRIT CLUB #2
THU 22.05.2025 19:00-20:00
Online via TeamsInformal monthly peer-to-peer feedback sessions where we share project drafts, talk through each others’ works in progress, and exchange ideas for their development.
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Smoke Light Stone Rain #1: Weather(ing) through the screen
TUE 20.05.2025 18:30-20:30
Atlas Cinema, SW9 7FA LondonEvening screening of short to medium length films encompassing elemental media and weather followed by an experimental hydro-feminist performance.
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Desktop Documentary and Digital Autoethnography
MON 21.04.2025 18:30-20:30
Atlas Cinema, SW9 7FA LondonWorkshop & film screening about contemporary experimental desktop documentary filmmaking.
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FILM CRIT CLUB #1
THU 10.04.2025 18:00-20:00
Media Research Building, Screen 1, Goldsmiths University campusInformal monthly peer-to-peer feedback sessions where we watch film drafts, talk through each other’s works in progress, and share ideas for their development.
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KONTEKST FILM FEST 2025: ARCHIVE
THU 27.02.2025
SET Social, SE15 4NP LondonA full-day radical grassroots festival of ethnographic and experimental film, art and thought on the theme of ARCHIVE.
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VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY FILMS
TUE 28.11.2023 19:00-23:00
Avalon Cafe, SE14 5RW LondonAn evening of ethnographic & experimental films by Goldsmiths visual anthropology students.
