26-28 November 2009, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Karim Aïnouz, Martín Rejtman, Andrea Tonacci Gonzalo Aguilar, Jens Andermann, José Carlos Avellar, Alvaro Fernández Bravo, Christian Gundermann, Maurício Lissovsky, Denilson Lopes, Mariano Mestman, Lúcia Nagib, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Sílvia… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 4pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD CILAVS, the Brazilian Embassy and FlamingoFeather Physical Theatre present an event dedicated to the renowned Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. Programme Screening of the documentary Urucuia (23… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 12pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Cristóbal Lehyt is currently artist in residence at Gasworks. His work examines the way politics affect and manipulate cultural and national identity. Through a variety of media… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 7.30 pm, Room 421, Birkbeck Main Building, London WC1H 0PD ‘On Truth’ by Daniel Link Daniel Link is professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His books include: Montserrat (novel), La mafia rusa (novel), Fantasmas. Imaginación… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 13 March 2010, 1.00 pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina has been directing films for over 40 years. His documentary work has focused on the exploration of the genre as a subjective… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 15 May 2010, 2.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD This one-day event brings the prize-winner Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut to CILAVS for a talk on the complex interweaving of documentary and fiction in two of her… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 19 June 2010, 2.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD These screenings were organized by the Embassy of Mozambique in collaboration with CILAVS to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the independence of Mozambique. Programme 2.30pm –  Silêncio… Continue Reading →

Monday, 14 June 2010, 6 pm–7.30 pm, Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PD Argentine Visual Artist and Human Rights Activist Marcelo Brodsky will be speaking about his artwork on the memory of the dictatorship in Argentina. The artist… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 7.30pm, Room B20, Birkbeck, Mallet Street, London WC1E 7HX The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa gave a talk at Birkbeck associated with the retrospective of his work at the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern in September, October, 2009…. Continue Reading →

Friday, 5 March 2010, 6pm, Room B36, Birkbeck Main Building, London WC1E 7HX Esther Gabara is Associate Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University and Visiting Researcher at CILAVS (2009-10). This seminar forms… Continue Reading →