GSSN Virtual

This is where media, lectures, interviews, and articles relating to research from members of the GSSN will be highlighted.

Es Brennt [It’s Burning]: Screening & Study Day (Goethe Institut & KCL, March/April 2025)

An exciting series of events around Erol Afşin’s 2023 film Es Brennt [It’s Burning] will be taking place in-person in London as well as online this March and April. This prize-winning film explores the consequences of racist abuse on a German-born family of Arab origin in contemporary Berlin. The Goethe-Institut will be screening the film online through its streaming platform, Goethe-on-Demand and will be available to view throughout the United … Read more

Panel Recordings: Hussein Shariffe (1934 – 2005): Exile and homecoming between London, Cairo and Khartoum

Posted by Ecarter on Dec. 19, 2020 | 0 Comments On December 18–19 2020, three online panel discussions staged at the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) explored the global connections linking Sudanese filmmaker and artist Hussein Shariffe’s film oeuvre to transnational modernisms, and to more proximate British histories of migration, exile, colonial violence, and exilic homecoming. These are the recordings of the events that included Shariffe’s daughter Eiman Hussein, Erica Carter, Liz … Read more

Erica Carter in conversation with Ulrike Ottinger

Posted by Ecarter on Jan. 26, 2020 | 0 Comments Director Ulrike Ottinger in conversation with Professor Erica Carter at Ciné Lumière, Institut français du Royaume Uni. Following the screening of Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London. As part of the Delphine Seyrig: Actress, Director and Activist film season.

Thomas Elsaesser in Discussion: BIMI Essay Film Festival 2018

Posted by Ecarter on March 28, 2018 | 0 Comments Find the recording of this event here: https://soundcloud.com/user-952189740/eff-2018-fourteen-thomas-elsaesser-in-discussion Details: The Sun Island, Thomas Elsaesser, Germany, 2017, Digital/Blu-Ray, 72 minutes, English and German – UK premiere. The screening was followed by a conversation between Thomas Elsaesser and Erica Carter, King’s College London With the support of the Goethe Institute, London, and the German Screen Studies Network In his first film, The Sun Island, Thomas Elsaesser, eminent film … Read more

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