Nearly a hundred video-born works from the Cinenova collection have recently been digitised by the BFI National Archive. Join us on 17 July at the BFI for a special screening of selected newly digitised works, introduced by Phoebe Beckett Chingono.

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The screening programme includes:

• Nuclear Defence… Living in a Fool’s Paradise (1983, Dir. Jenny Holland, Vicky Grut, Sheila Gillie, Sally Fonseca). 20min

A video essay on women’s history, using  actors and scripted scenes, making connections between our attitudes to protest and the influence of the education systems, the media and the state.

• Mouthing Off: Women Speak Out About Safer Sex (1991, Leeds Aids Advice). 38min

A video produced by ‘Women’s Action on AIDS’ group at ‘Leeds Aids Advice’, to raise awareness and spark conversations around safer sex for women.

• Sistren in Photography. (1991, Aphra Video). 26min

An innovative and entertaining documentary that explores the varied work, motivation, politics and lifestyles of five Black women photographers based in Birmingham.

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Phoebe Beckett Chingono is an anthropologist and cultural producer. Her practice spans archival research, ethnographic methods, choreography, and community-based media. She holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, where she was a scholarship recipient and research grantee. Her research explores value, semiotics, and mediating practices, particularly from imperial ‘margins’ in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. She currently works with the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) and is project coordinator at the London Community Video Archive (LCVA), and has worked with Media Burn Archive, Chicago.