Torriano Film Nights bringing together different generations of documentary, non fiction and experimental film makers. Directors will be present to discuss their work post-screening. Hosted by Isobel Landell Mills.
Arrive at 7pm for 7.30pm screening. £5 plus £3 for optional donation for refreshments.
This evening will be poetry films.
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and sex educator. They’re interested in how language shapes childhood and how we might use it to queer the future. Kamalakanthan won the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize, the Primadonna Fiction Prize and placed second in the MONO Prize. They’re a co-author of Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships. Kamalakanthan has performed with the Roundhouse, DAYTIMERS and UK Black Pride and their debut play PERIOD PARRRTY is in development with Kali Theatre. Kamalakanthan’s debut novel in verse is forthcoming with Faber.
They run the poetry workshops WORD-BENDERS at The Common Press and Queer Poetry Sauna at Hackney Sauna Baths. With DYCP they’re deepening their practice within the decolonial creative classroom; they’ve spoken on decolonising storytelling, queerness and sex education with the Barbican, Colours Youth Network, Sex Money Power with Sara Pascoe, and BBC
Michaela Coplen is an American poet living in London. In 2013 she was appointed a National Student Poet in the US. Her poems have been published in
Adroit,
The Atlantic,
The London Magazine,
Poets.org, and
Rialto. She won the 2019 Troubadour International Poetry Prize, the 2020 York Poetry Prize, and features in
Here: Poems for the Planet and the 2020
Best New Poets anthology. Her debut poetry pamphlet,
Finishing School, was published by
ignitionpress in 2022.
William Wyld is a poet and visual artist from south London. Costume and identity are central to their work, which blurs distinctions between real and imagined voices, and is preoccupied with grief, sexuality and the human relationship to the natural world.
Wyld has performed at the National Poetry Library, Wilderness festival and poetry nights around London. Their poetry has appeared in Lighthouse, Queer Life Queer Love II, The Live Canon Sonnet Anthology and was highly commended in the Bridport Prize 2023. Their paintings have been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show and Discerning Eye exhibitions.
A carpenter by trade, Wyld has worked on large scale installations at theatres and museums around the country. Between construction projects they make and exhibit paintings, masks and costumes out of their workshop in Greenwich.
Isobel Landell Mills is a curator and filmmaker, interested in personal and collective myth making. She has curated a season of film screenings at the Torriano and is currently working on several independent documentary projects. She recently worked at Sheffield Doc fest and Open City.
Filmmakers interested in screening their work are encouraged to attend and get in touch with Isobel: torrianomeetinghousefilmclub@gmail.com This is the first in a series of film nights. Torriano Meeting House has a long tradition of encouraging experimental and non fiction filmmaking, having worked closely with the London Filmmakers Coop in the 1980s and 1990s.
