Lux Imperium

Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) is a response to the growing interest in film and the moving image across the College. Through public events and academic research initiatives, BIMI will address a wide variety of contemporary issues, particularly those relevant to its interdisciplinary structure.  Working closely with the Birkbeck Cinema, BIMI programmes public screenings and special seasons, making use of 35 mm film in addition to the Cinema’s high quality DVD projection.We will be runninga busy calendar of eventsfrom research seminars to film screenings. Please check these pages for further details in the coming weeks.BIMI is funded across three schools at Birkbeck: theSchool of Arts,School of Law, andSchool of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy.  TheUniversity of Pittsburghis also a partner and co-funder.

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Film makers Noah Angell and Francis Gooding will screen source material for their upcoming film project Lux Imperium, which is composed from hundreds of home movies shot during the dissolution of the British Empire.   Lux Imperium explores the history of the amateur film as it first became available to the public in the same decades that saw the unravelling of the British Empire. While using this technology to record their private lives, amateur filmmakers throughout the British colonies were also unwittingly capturing the biggest empire in history in free fall. Angell and Gooding will show some of this material alongside contemporary youtube sourced clips in order to articulate a rough historical trajectory of the political amateur film.

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