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"How to Feed a Dictator (2026)" + Post Doc Drinks
Sun, Aug 9, 5:00 PMLet's meet and watch a new 2026 documentary, recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and Sheffield Doc Fest "How To Feed A Dictator" at the Dochouse in Curzon Bloomsbury, a doc that explores the experiences of the personal chefs who served five brutal dictators. Let's head to Exmouth Market for drinks at Exmouth Arms, Coin Laundry, or Mikkeller Brewpub afterwards.

Deep Impact (1998)
Tue, Aug 4, 5:00 PMPlease meet on the ground floor of 184 Shepherds Bush Road just before 6pm and we will escort you to the 1st floor where our secret cinema is!

Dukefest 2026: Found Footage: The California Tapes / Beyond Shorts - FREE
Mon, Aug 3, 6:00 PMDukefest is the annual extravaganza put on by the cult and obscure footage-focused [Duke Mitchell Film Club](https://thedukemitchell.uk/events/dukefest-2026/#day2) - here's what's on Monday night: Found Footage: The California Tapes Join us for a delve into 10 vintage VHS tapes that we’ve picked up during our time in California over the last few years. We’ll check out the wildest clips from this assortment of super obscure finds we’ve unearthed, including how to use a camcorder, how to get fit sitting down, the side effects of Viagra and much more! Beyond Shorts Our special guest host Nicole McControversy is back with another selection of brain smashing short films from around the world. Expect a mind altering collection of oddities that will change the way you look at life. Join us on the night as Beyond Shorts returns for yet another mind-altering edition. Details available [here](https://thedukemitchell.uk/events/dukefest-2026/#day3). Show kicks off at 7:30pm but worth getting there bit before to bag seats so will be at pub from 7.

Dukefest 2026: Evrim Mystery Show/The Marion Stokes VHS Archive Part 2 - FREE
Tue, Aug 4, 6:00 PMDukefest is the annual extravaganza put on by the cult and obscure footage-focused Duke Mitchell Film Club. This is night three, where part of the night is curated by Evrim(?) and the other part is made up of bits taken from the VHS recordings of Marion Stokes, a woman who apparently spent more than three decades recording American TV 24/7. And it's all free! I have no idea what to expect but I'm expecting it to be weird. Details available [here](https://thedukemitchell.uk/events/dukefest-2026/#day3). I don't know how long it'll be but it kicks off at half seven, half an hour after doors open. I'll be getting there at 7pm to grab a seat and I recommend you do too.

Sussex Coils and Loops -Paul Holman
Thu, Aug 6, 4:00 PMPaul Holman’s Sussex Coils and Loops is a work of parafolklore on the great serpents encountered in the land of south-east England. The book describes a series of ritual actions performed between the winter solstice of 2017 and the summer solstice of 2022 at sites with serpent or dragon legends associated with them. We explore hidden woods, secret pools and lonely churches, find clues in stained glass windows, graveyards, fading murals, tattered pamphlets and video games. There are hermits and saints, headless horsemen, mighty oaks and giant puddings. Shrines are constructed, encounters logged. Each generation is seen to have added to the recursive legend, and the sources range from Anglo-Saxon and medieval Latin accounts to contemporary storytellers. All seek to plumb the depthless knucker holes and reveal their great and terrifying wyrms. In Sussex Coils and Loops, Holman deploys a number of strategies to demonstrate and report on these workings. The writing is in turn experimental, documentary, and scholarly. This is unashamedly contemporary landscape magic. Holman resists any characterisation of folklore that privileges a notion of authenticity as inherently conservative. Rather, he sees it as a dynamic and unstable process which is constantly taking on provisional, dare we say, snaky, forms. Through its careful scholarship, field investigations, and experiments with form, Sussex Coils and Loops offers a variety of entry points into this living tradition, honouring its unruly, indefatigable nature, and curious to see where it might go next

Introducing: Spotlight on medieval London
Tue, Aug 11, 4:00 PMThis is the spotlight talk on a small exhibition. £2 attendance fee. I only have two tickets right now, I may be able to get more if there is interest. Let me know.
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