One of the key goals of KONTEKST as a platform is to organise engaging and accessible public events to make more people familiar with the discipline of visual anthropology, promote critical engagement with images, and to feature work made in particular by up-and-coming critically-minded artists, researchers and storytellers.

Some context:

Our events platform work that disrupts the status quo, critiques “objective” truth, and reshapes how we experience and interpret the world.

Through running our events, we want to explore the kind and art and filmmaking that emphasises context and exploration as a way to decolonise and imagine an otherwise.

Running events is for us an inherently political thing.

We reject the increasingly normalised imperialist, racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and ableist discourses and oppose the rhetoric of the growing far-right. By building this platform, we want to connect people who share our values and bring about real-life social change.

We are determined to prioritise work submitted by those who have not yet established themselves as artists - to reflect our grassroots ethos.

We want KONTEKST to serve as a piece of infrastructure that that can be used to amplify important messages from those who do not yet have established audiences. Our festival will be programmed to be a multi-sided conversation in-between the artists and the audience. Providing feedbacks will be an integral part of the event.

We have so far organised two film festivals and we are planning to organise more. We also intend to run a series of smaller events, such as film screenings and workshops over the course of 2025.

Please scroll down for details on our past events or contact us if you’d like to get involved in organising future events.

As KONTEKST is an OPEN, horizontal collective platform, anyone who relates to our values and mission can contribute and use this it for good. This means that also YOU TOO reading this can organise events with KONTEKST.

Our platform has a ready audience and connections at hand, and we want KONTEKST to be an umbrella for other critical projects and events! So for example - let's say you are an aspiring event programmer but have no experience - you can organise an event through KONTEKST, promote it through this platform while keeping the credit, get an audience and then be able to use this experience for your portfolio. KONTEKST as a platform is here to serve you! Anyone can organise KONTEKST events, not just admins.

Get in touch with us with your ideas.