Ed Webb-Ingall

More book events coming up in May, June and July - in London, Portugal, Paris and London… message me for tix and details. Hope to see you there

Join us this coming Thursday for our Library Session with Dr Ed Webb-Ingall to celebrate the launch of his new book ‘The Story of British Video Activism’ (2026). Ed Webb-Ingall is a filmmaker and researcher working with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video. He is a co-founder and project director of the London Community Video Archive and is the author of BFI Screen Stories: ‘The Story of British Video Activism’. His new book, ‘The Story of British Video Activism’, traces the democratising impact of portable video recording technology from the late 1960s to the early 21st century. The book reveals the grassroots radicalism of generations of video activists who put cameras in the hands of campaigners and marginalised groups to equip them to challenge authority and fight for tangible change. Event details / → Thursday 26 March, 6–8pm → 5 Florence Street, G5 0YX Webb-Ingall will be joined in-conversation by TCG’s Programme Assistant Myriam Mouflih. Copies of the book will be available to buy at the event. Book a free space via the link in our bio. Images: 1. Courtesy of Ed Webb-Ingall 2. Ed Webb-Ingall, cove of ‘The Story of British Video Activism’, (2026). @edwebbingall @the_lcva @britishfilminstitute @myriam.mouflih

Bologna for Piero, Gelato and Varda

Book Launch: The Story of British Video Activism Join us at St Anne’s House for the launch of The Story of British Video Activism (BFI/Bloomsbury), a new book exploring how activists have used video to document movements, challenge power and shape political storytelling. Author Ed Webb-Ingall will discuss the rise of portable video in Britain from the late 1960s and how these grassroots filmmaking practices continue to influence today’s digital landscape. 📍 St Anne’s House 📅 Thursday 9 April 🚪 Doors 18:30 | Talk begins 19:00 ⏰ Event ends 21:30 16+

Library Session / Ed Webb-Ingall – ‘The Story of British Video Activism’ Book Launch Join us for a Library Session with filmmaker and researcher Dr Ed Webb-Ingall to celebrate the launch of his new book ‘The Story of British Video Activism’ (2026). The book traces the democratising impact of portable video recording technology from the late 1960s to the early 21st century. Webb-Ingall introduces pioneering and dynamic videomakers from John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins to Liberation Films and Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, showing how video played a powerful role in local and national campaigns on issues including housing, labour struggles and racial justice. Event details / → Thursday 26 March, 6–8pm → 5 Florence Street Book a free space via the link in our bio. Image: From a Liberation Films project, photo documents community campaign for a pedestrian crossing in Balham, London (circa 1973), subsequently included in the film ‘Starting to Happen’ (1974). [Detail]. Courtesy of the London Community Video Archive (Goldsmiths University London).

For anyone who missed the launch last night I have two more planned in Glasgow and Bristol. Please spread the word and links in bio

This book I wrote is out in the world today. I never thought I would be someone who would write a book. But I did and it feels all kinds of things 🫣🤗🫠📚

📢📢 please join me at BFI Southbank’s Reuben Library for the launch of The Story of British Video Activism (BFI/Bloomsbury), the first book-length study of this overlooked radical history that saw activists and communities use video to document struggles, organise resistance and challenge power across housing, labour, racial justice, environmental and AIDS campaigns. In conversation with cultural worker and artist Jemma Desai ( @iamjemmadesai ), author Ed Webb-Ingall will discuss how portable video transformed political filmmaking in Britain from the late 1960s and how the spirit of video activism continues to shape today’s digital landscape. 📢 📢 link to book in bio - limited places and books available to buy on the night

I wrote a book and it’s coming out on February 19th in the UK and April in the US. I am working on some launch events at the moment but please invite me to come and talk about it and if you like I can show videos too. I can’t quite believe it will be in the world so soon. Link in bio “The Story of British Video Activism is the first book-length account of this vitally innovative but unjustly neglected filmmaking. Ed Webb-Ingall traces the democratising impact of portable video recording technology from the late 1960s to the early 21st century. He introduces pioneering and dynamic videomakers from John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins to Liberation Films and Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, showing how video played a powerful role in local and national campaigns on issues including housing, labour struggles and racial justice. This book reveals the grassroots radicalism of generations of video activists who put cameras in the hands of campaigners and marginalised groups to equip them to challenge authority and fight for tangible change. Close-Ups highlight innovative hardware and campaigns from the miners’ strike to AIDS activism. Webb-Ingall shows that the spirit of analogue videotape lives on in today’s digital video activism.”

First screening of Pout1 for 34 years! How’s did it make me feel! Proud & fabulous! 🥳 x

Lucky enough to have my photo taken by @amygwatkin as part of her amazing Dover Photo Booth project - marking time on the grid 📸

✨New experiments for the 2025 Christmas Craft Fair 13th December, stalls 2-5pm, light entertainment 5-7pm Tunnel Studios, aka Henry & Hett’s workshop, aka 151-161 Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, SE10 0PW Food, bar and a raffle, will be raising funds for Dahnoun Mutual Aid who are based in Gaza. Can’t wait to see you there 💝💝💝