Bristol Experimental Expanded Film: BEEF

31/05/2026

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Save the dates 💾

Stay tuned for further announcements 📣

28/04/2026

What are your BEEF memories?

We’re making a BEEF pamphlet for our 10 year anniversary, Ephemera, and would like to gather your memories, stories, fragments, thoughts, from our events over the years.

What do you remember?

Please post in the comments below, or DM us!

Thank you! 🧡🧡🧡

18/03/2026

Morgan Quaintance: Available Light

Thursday 26 March 2026 // 20:00 // Kit Form

Book Here: https://hdfst.uk/e149097

More information: http://www.beefbristol.org/

26/02/2026

Saturday 7th March intertwined WORKSHOP & GIG for - Refracted Light 16mm film workshop: https://hdfst.uk/e149156 + Popon-PanOrama-Annie Gardiner https://hdfst.uk/e145617

26/12/2025

Coming Soon to BEEF
Doing it for Ourselves: Film Labs & Collectives
How do DIY analogue film labs and artist initiated film screenings stimulate and support innovation and new aesthetics in cinema?

BEEF are excited to host special guests for this 3 day event:
Els Van Riel (Brussels Film Lab)
Kim Knowles (Labordy Ffilm Aber)
Andrew Vallance (convenor, Conversations about Cinema)
Alia Syed (film-maker and former LFMC)
collective-iz (programmer, expanded cinema events)
Plus films and expanded cinema from Harkat, India; Jenny Baines; BEEF members and others.

Feb 20th, Cube Cinema, Bristol and Feb 21st -22nd @ Kitform, Jamaica Street, 7pm Bristol.

Further details to be published shortly.

Returning and Turning 2025, (Deniz Johns & Martin Zeilinger) 5’38 / multi screen video projection

16/11/2025

CYCLES AND SEQUENCES: RESEARCH CURRENTS IN ANIMATION in animation is an area of rich intellectual and creative endeavour and the AnimationResearch Centre at UCA has been a key contributor to this field since its inception in 1998.Following numerous UCA Animation hosted events, the focus now turns toward the practice andresearch-based outputs of the Animation Department’s own staff, research students and…...

CYCLES AND SEQUENCES: RESEARCH CURRENTS IN ANIMATION in animation is an area of rich intellectual and creative endeavour and the AnimationResearch Centre at UCA has been a key contribu…

05/11/2025

15th of November, BRICKS at St Anne's House, Bristol

BEEF Presents: Environmental Arts & Collective Care

a day of participatory and creative exchange, exploring how art can nurture health and resilience in the climate crisis.

Workshops with...

Jamie Bird & Lor Bird https://rb.gy/iry740
Using creative methods to explore feelings in response to climate change Jamie Bird’s current research includes the role of social action, imagination and creativity in responding to the climate crisis.

The Sustainable Darkroom - https://sustainabledarkroom.com/
Image-making workshop, using herbal teas with lower-toxicity photographic materials and methods.

Herbalists Without Borders - https://bristolhwb.org/
Working with plants to create herbal healthcare to sustain collectively and build resilience: making Fire Cider Vinegar.

Cibomatto - https://www.cibomattobristol.co.uk/portfolio
The day will culminate with a shared meal using locally sourced sustainable foods. The meal will give space for conversation after the day's activities - and for gentle appraisal over a delicious dinner.

BEEF http://www.beefbristol.org/
Artists Vicky Smith with Shirley Pegna, Matt Davies & Melanie Clifford - Film screening with live score of Not (A) Part.

Here's a link to the event with more information.
https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/checkout/beef

10/10/2025

Tricky Women, Animation, and Fantasies of the Monstrous Feminine Fig. 1 - Tricky Women International Animated Film Festival. The Tricky Women International Animated Film Festival, screening works by female and genderqueer artists, aspires to the fantastical vision, “to imagine a world that is different from the one we currently live in.” Given its radical agenda, it is remarkable that host city Vienna has consistently supported this event for twenty-five successive years in some of its finest cinemas, attended by diverse audiences and sponsored by prestigious patrons (Fig....

Tricky Women, Animation, and Fantasies of the Monstrous Feminine Fig. 1 – Tricky Women International Animated Film Festival. The Tricky Women International Animated Film Festival, screening w…

29/09/2025

BEEF presents:

Navigating an Archive in a Euphoric / Diasporic Mode with Amirali Ghasemi.

Screening handful of carefully selected short films, as Amirali Ghasemi will shed light on diverse attempts at archiving and counter-archiving strategies over four decades in Iran.

Here’s a link with further information.

http://www.beefbristol.org/portfolio/navigating-an-archive-in-a-euphoric-diasporic-mode/.

Join us on 2nd of October at Kit form, Bristol

BEEF presents Navigating an Archive in a Euphoric / Diasporic Mode with Amirali Ghasemi More info.http://www.beefbristol.org/portfolio/navigating-an-archive-...

21/07/2025

Thursday 24th of July 14:20

Alpe-Edria Underground!

a film by Matevž Jerman and Juri Meden

Join us to celebrate 10 years of BEEF with a Slovenian Double Bill!

Join co-directors Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden (Austrian Film Museum in Vienna) for a brief and imperfect history of artists' film in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.