Is film a form of architecture?

Or a tool that makes spaces of emotion, resistance and memory legible?

Is this where we build spaces for doubt, wonder and radical imagination?

Film–Architecture Forum is a five-day gathering for filmmakers, architects, artists and researchers investigating the relationship between the moving image and the built environment. Through screenings, lectures and discussions, participants explore how film constructs space, evokes memory and reshapes architectural thought.

Set within the AA’s historic rooms and joined by an international community, the Forum creates a rare space for experimental thinking and exchange. We will engage with analogue, digital and interactive media, explore narrative construction, visual research and critical practice, and reflect on the social, cultural and political questions embedded in cinematic space. You will learn directly from leading global voices in this small-cohort, high-impact setting. Sat around one large round table, you will have the chance to explore and test ideas together.

This forum is for architects, filmmakers, artists, researchers, students and academics working with time-based media; practitioners translating site, politics and memory into moving image; studios testing film as spatial research or as a narrative tool.

Recent contributors across the Forums include John Smith, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, Erika Balsom, Oreet Ashery, Forensic Architecture, Penelope Haralambidou, Clara Kraft, Eunjo Lee, Miranda Pennell and others.

The full 2026 programme details are forthcoming.