Archive
Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image is a university-led cinema and cultural hub that investigates cinema, television and screen media through research, film cultures and public engagement. BIMI challenges conventional boundaries between academic inquiry and cultural participation and our public programming complements rigorous academic research.
Image: Dr Janet McCabe introduces Dr Alexander Dhoest at EFF 2018, celebrating the TV work of Jef Cornelis, Session 9: You Know the Way and the Language
Image: Dr Michael Temple (EFF director 2015–2023) in conversation with Dr Laura Rascoli, EFF 2018
Archive
Here is an archive of our activity, including The Essay Film Festival.
- Birkbeck Research The Essay Film Festival (2015-23)
- Derek Jarman Blog A Selected Bibliography of Resources on the Essay Film
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2023
25-31 March
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2022
19 March-8 April
- Birkbeck News (18 March), Essay Film Festival returns for its eighth edition.
- ICA Essay Film Festival 2022.
- ICA Blind Spot (Die Reise nach Lyon / Le voyage à Lyon) + Q&A
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2021
25 March-3 April
- EEF Postscript. Diaries, Notes and Sketches: A Talk by Andres di Tella with a screening of Private Fiction (2019).
- Essay Film Festival 2021: Prelude 3. Practice Research Open Forum (19 March).
- NECS. Essay Film 2021 Edition.
- The 2021 Essay Film Festival – On Your Screen #1. Will DiGravio chats with Michael Temple, the director of the Essay Film Festival and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, about the 2021 Essay Film Festival. The festival will run online from 25 March to 3 April. Online
- Dobinson, Jenna (9 December 2021) The Radical Power of Feminist Friendships: YUGANTAR COLLECTIVE at the 2021 Essay Film Festival. WFTHN blog
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2020
Festival cancelled due to Covid lockdown
- Essay Film Festival Prelude: Exploring the 1980s Korean Film Collectives with Kim Hong-joon at the Korean Cultural Centre UK (15 February).
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2019
- NECS. Essay Film 2018 Edition.
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2018
23-29 March
- Essay Film Festival Prelude 1: The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin and Trying to Kiss the Moon (10 February).
- BBK Media Library, EFF 2018. Session 9#. TV: You Know the Way and the Language.
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2018.
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2018: Luz obscura (Obscure Light) (25 March).
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2018: Vivienne Dick (27 March).
- Austrian Cultural Forum. Essay Film Festival 2018: ★ (29 March).
- NECS. Essay Film 2018 Edition.
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2017
24 March-1 April
- Robson, Andy. Essay Film Festival Prelude 1: Videoletters. Stephen Dwoskin + Robert Kramer @Birkbeck_BIMI #essayfilm (10 January 2017).
- Babette Mangolte screening at the ICA.
- Birkbeck Events: Essay Film Festival 2017.
- Birkbeck Events. Essay Film Festival: Jocelyne Saab (1 April).
- Clark, George. About the Island, Essay Film Festival, 28 March.
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2017: A Critical Eye for Critical Times.
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2017: 327 Notebooks + Filmmaker in Conversation (24 March).
- Session #14: The Architectural Essay Film, with Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
- Essay Film Festival 2017: Thinking Cinema on Television: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), ca. 1975. Sessions# 2, 6&7 at the Goethe Institut.
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2016
18-24 March
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2016.
- ICA. Essay Film Festival: The Silent Majority Speaks (20 March).
- Whyte, Jerry. Reporting from the Essay film Festival 2016.
- Essay Film Festival Presents: Correspondências (Correspondences) (2016). 18 November 2016.
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2015
24-29 March
- Fletcher, Alex. Essay Film Festival 2015 Report. Art Monthly 387 (June 2015).
- Dutch Art Institute. Essay Film Festival 2015 at Birkbeck Institute and ICA. Tuesday 24 March - Sunday 29 March. With introductions by Kodwo Eshun.
- ICA. Essay Film Festival 2015.
- Temple, Michael. The Essay Film Festival, 2015-. [Show/Exhibition]