Society of Cinema presents Róisín Tapponi:
Decolonial Film

Programming and Activist Networks
Lecture Performance
‍Tuesday November 17th, 2021
From 18:00 to 20:00‍

Drawing from her experience working as a leading film programmer, curator and archivist, Habibi Collective founder Róisín Tapponi presents strategies and methods towards decolonial film programming, with attention to feminist filmmaking from South-West Asia and North Africa.‍

Róisín Tapponi is an Assyrian Iraqi-Irish film curator, programmer, writer, and academic based in London. She is Founder of Habibi Collective, Founder CEO of Shasha Movies, Founder EIC of ART WORK Magazine and Co-Founder of Independent Iraqi Film Festival (IIFF). She is a writer at Frieze Magazine, and has recently been awarded the ‘World-Leading PhD Art History Scholarship’ at St. Andrews.‍

During 2021-2022 Society of Cinema concentrates on independent film production practices and feminist filmmaking strategies worldwide and in the local context. Aiming to strengthen the connections of the local scene with other filmmaking groups and film scholars internationally; our program engages with, analyses, discusses, and counteracts (yet to be renounced) effects of its structures. We are taking a practice-based, yet research- centric approach through workshops, creative programming and critical publications.

Society of Cinema is a collaboration between Museum of Impossible Forms and Kenno Filmi.

The series is curated by Danai Anagnostou in conversation with Giovanna Esposito Yussif.