"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film
Dec
9
7:00 pm19:00

"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film

Presented by Mikatonic, this talk explores how cinematic representations of the asylum and its patients have reflected real-life developments in psychiatry, including the demolition of Victorian institutions and moves toward community-based care in the late 20th century. We will also see how film itself played a role in these developments, with documentary exposés of asylum life like Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967) revealing the real-life horrors of the institution.

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Native Spirit Festival 2025: Sunday Shorts | Matinee Programme
Nov
23
1:45 pm13:45

Native Spirit Festival 2025: Sunday Shorts | Matinee Programme

The UK’s first and longest-running festival of Indigenous Cinema returns to the Horse Hospital with a matinee programme of short films by First Nations filmmakers Jess Lowe Chaverri, Konwanahktotha Alvera Sargent, Terry James Jones, KJ Edwards, January Marie Rogers, Sarah Houle, Theo Jean Cuthand Robert Joe, Abraham Cote, and Amanda Strong.

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Televisual Gothic: Mediation, Manipulation and Exploitation in British Broadcasting
Nov
11
7:00 pm19:00

Televisual Gothic: Mediation, Manipulation and Exploitation in British Broadcasting

Brontë Schiltz joins the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies to explore how the Televisual Gothic has imagined television as both a site of horror and a means of resistance—revealing the medium’s power to distort reality, exploit its subjects, and reinforce class hierarchies, but also to challenge and subvert them.

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