KIT FORM

PWYC! Newsflash: global network of uber-wealthy elites operates beyond the law. As utterly demonic as the Epstein scandal is, it’s a logical extension of the ever-present patriarchal capitalist shadow. Counterfire hosts a necessary sitdown with activist and Suffragette biographer Kathe Connelly to break down the total impunity of the men that run our world. A Bristol Counterfire meeting on the Epstein files about what they tells us about sex, class and power in a capitalist society

BEEF hosts an avant-crud lineup of AV experimentalism and bizarro sonic wanderers, headed up by Popon’s wiry industrial scuzz soundtracking Laura Phillips’ DIY 35mm film collages. For starters: PanOrama celebrates Daphne Oram’s centenary with improvised cello and synths, while Annie Gardiner brings acoustic melancholy and Lucia layers in feminist readings. 10/10! On the eve of International Women’s Day, we celebrate boundary-breaking sound with a powerful lineup of visionary women and non-binary artists reshaping experimental music.

Essential one for cut-and-splice connoisseurs: this quartet of avant-garde short films raids the attic and finds the empire in a shoebox. Merging diasporic memory with geopolitics, Sylvia Schedelbauer and Richard Fung recontextualise queer love, colonial history, AIDS and opera across four haunting screenings. This short-film programme positions the family archive as a starting point from which to illustrate complex personal histories of belonging and acceptance in diasporic contexts through filmmaker Sylvia Schedelbauer and Richard Fung's works. The screening will be followed by an online Q&A with Sylvia Schedelbauer.

A soft-focus Galentine’s gathering at Kit Form: photography collective G*rls Camera Club pair a laid-back community social with a screening of rare gem Girlfriends, Claudia Weill’s enduringly influential, tenderly human portrait of female friendship and youthful ambition in 70s NYC. G*RLS Camera Club presents a Galentine’s evening with Girlfriends (1978), Claudia Weill’s debut feature and a quietly influential work of American independent cinema.

Last year, seated pensioners holding banners were suddenly rebranded as an unstoppable outbreak of domestic terrorism; how did we get here? Bristol Counterfire hosts another vital discussion, dissecting Labour’s crypto-fascist swerve and shining a light on what protest means in this brave new world. Discussion on the increased powers police have used throughout 2025 to curb dissent and stifle protest, and what this will mean as we enter 2026