ESSAY FILM FESTIVAL INTRODUCTION
SESSION ONE: YUGANTAR FILM COLLECTIVE
Thursday 26 March, 18:00-21:00, Birkbeck Cinema
Is This Just a Story? Celebrating the Yugantar Film Collective
SESSION TWO: FOUND FOOTAGE RESEARCH EVENT
Friday 27 March, 12:00-17:00, Birkbeck Cinema
Archive/Fictions: Found Footage and the Essay Film
SESSION THREE: OTOLITH GROUP/O HORIZON
Friday 27 March, 20:30-22:30, ICA
Essay film exploring the educational philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore
Saturday 28 March, 18:00-19:30, ICA
UK premieres of found footage works by Leandro Listorti and John Torres
SESSION FIVE: RUCHIR JOSHI/ELEVEN MILES
Saturday 28 March, 20:00-23:00, ICA
UK premiere of restored classic Indian essay film
Sunday 29 March, 18:00-20:00, ICA
Double bill of experimental works by Hans Richter and Frank Beauvais exploring the personal and the everyday
SESSION SEVEN: RUCHIR JOSHI/SHORT FILMS & CONVERSATION
Sunday 29 March, 20:30-22:30, ICA
Ruchir Joshi: short film programme and conversation
SESSION EIGHT: RUCHIR JOSHI/SYMPOSIUM
Monday 30 March, 10:00-19:00, Birkbeck Cinema
Ruchir Joshi Symposium: Essays in Text and Image
SESSION NINE: TAMAR RACHKOVSKY/HOME IN E MAJOR
Tuesday 31 March, 14:00-16:00, Birkbeck Cinema
A first-person essay film about unlikely friendships and what it means to find a home
SESSION TEN: SARAH WOOD/SHORT FILMS PROGRAMME
Tuesday 31 March, 20:55-23:00, ICA
To bring the world into the world: a programme by Sarah Wood
SESSION ELEVEN: WORKSHOP WITH GARRETT BRADLEY
Wednesday 1 April, 14:00-16:00, Birkbeck Cinema
Workshop with Garrett Bradley
SESSION TWELVE: GARRETT BRADLEY/AMERICA AND OTHER WORKS
Wednesday 1 April, 21:00-23:00, ICA
Screening of America and conversation with Trevor Mathison
SESSION THIRTEEN: WORKSHOP WITH CAULEEN SMITH
Thursday 2 April, 14:00-16:00, Birkbeck Cinema
An illustrated lecture by Cauleen Smith
SESSION FOURTEEN: CAULEEN SMITH/SHORTS PROGRAMME
Thursday 2 April, 21:00-23:00, ICA
Cauleen Smith: short film programme and conversation
Friday 3 April, 14:00-17:00, Birkbeck Cinema
A tribute to the work of Jocelyne Saab presented by Mathilde Rouxel
SESSION SIXTEEN: DERKAOUI-MORIN
Friday 3 April, [exact timings tbc], French Institute
UK premiere of restored Moroccan essay film banned forty years ago
SESSION SEVENTEEN: TRANSIT/ESCAPE ROUTE TO MARSEILLE
Saturday 4 April, 14:30-19:30, Goethe-Institut
UK premiere of restoration of Escape Route to Marseille adapted from the novel Transit