New Visions

“Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair” – bell hooks, all about love: NEW VISIONS

For the Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival screening of short films from Roundhouse’s multi-award winning Film Fund programme, we celebrate love in all its forms – romantic love, love of self and, above all, communal love. 

From our vast catalogue of short films made by some of the UK’s most talented young writer/directors, we’ve curated a programme of shorts that celebrate love as a radical act. And there won’t be a romcom in sight! This evening is about what, in her celebrated manifesto all about love: NEW VISIONS, the late great bell hooks called “the transformative power of love”. 

To compliment Myah Asha Jeffers’ exhibition Acts of Communion, specially commissioned for the Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival, we’ll also be screening Myah’s acclaimed short film There is No Healing in Silence, inspired by bell hooks’ Belonging: a Culture of Place. In all her work Myah takes inspiration from hooks’ insights into the power of love to heal personal and social trauma.

“Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic. Yet listeners remain reluctant to embrace the idea of love as a transformative force”. 

– bell hooks, all about love: NEW VISIONS 

The screening will be followed by a short conversation between Myah Asha Jeffers and some of the Roundhouse Film Fund artists.

About the Roundhouse Film Fund supported by Wiggin

The Roundhouse Film Fund is a commissioning, production and distribution programme that aims to accelerate the career progression of emerging filmmakers aged between 18 and 25. The programme supports a creative and innovative artistic approach to presenting socially relevant films that are entertaining, enlivening and inspiring for audiences.