Making Series: ii. Film, Tactility and the Politics of Aesthetic Labour
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
BIMI and Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies cordially invite you to:
Making Series: ii. Film, Tactility and the Politics of Aesthetic Labour
3 July 2026, Birkbeck Cinema
Centred on two short films — The Man Who Painted His House (Victoria Mills and Lily Ford, 2025) and Manual/Hands (Ford, forthcoming 2026) — this event explores a cluster of interconnected themes: the spaces of making; haptic time; the temporalities of the house museum; aesthetic labour; and the hierarchies of arts, crafts, class and society.
The event is part of BIMI's Making series, which takes film as a lived cultural practice. Each event departs from a specific work to reflect not only on what a film is about, but on how it was made: the collaborations, decisions and processes that constitute filmmaking as practice in itself.
The evening opens with a participatory workshop in the foyer in which the audience is invited to contribute to the making of a triptych: an act of collective making that situates the question of aesthetic labour within direct, embodied experience. This will be followed by introductory talks, screenings and discussion.
Contact name: Matthew Barrington
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