Event overview
Join us for a special screening of recent works by Bronte Dow, Christian Kingo, Margot McEwen, Molly Haviland, Sarah Lewis, and Syd Farrington.
Featuring alumni from the MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths, each of whom was awarded a Junior Fellowship upon graduation. Spanning diverse conceptual and formal approaches, these films engage with themes of identity, materiality, memory, and the politics of place.
Bronte Dow’s ‘Dreams’ (2020) assembles footage recorded by Louise Dow and words drawn from 'The Shimmering Beast' by Steve Reinke, creating a fragmented, recursive meditation on selfhood.
Christian Kingo’s 'Code Strata' (2025) questions technological futures by tracing the archival capacities of the Earth’s geological record and contrasts them with contemporary digital storage methods. By interrogating the shifting materiality of data— from sedimentary layers to electronic memory — the film reflects on changing concepts of permanence, loss, and the evolving structures of digital preservation.
Margot McEwen’s 'Network Topology' (2024) transposes the organisational structures of computer networks into film grammar, drawing from early cinema, structuralist film, and analogue video art. Through appropriation, digitisation, and recombination, the film is a superimposition of superimpositions (just as the internet is a network of networks), and a record of two transgender women attempting to find connection.
Molly Haviland’s 'Love Wins' (2021) is an intimate meditation on the emotional landscape of the city, exploring the interrelation between personal memory and the built environment. Through an interplay of sound, image, and spoken word, the film reflects on processes of attachment, loss, and transformation.
Sarah Lewis’s 'Bouffant' (2024) employs the bouffant hairstyle as a metaphor for the attempt to control the expression of erotic energy in a patriarchal society. Beneath the stylised façade lies something messy and untamed—an underlying tension that the film explores through the trace of intimate encounters.
Syd Farrington’s 'Descent' (2023) examines the accelerated transformation of London’s skyline. High-rise developments in sites of regeneration are abstracted into a series of free-falling motions, reflecting on the visual and spatial disorientation of urban change. Through this abstraction, the film gestures toward an attempted reclamation of the city's shifting skyline.
Organised and hosted by Programme Director, Gail Pickering.
Free entry—no booking required—all welcome.
Image: 'Love Wins' courtesy of Molly Haviland.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Feb 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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