RADIANT CIRCUS exists to promote and preserve alternative screen culture and is the production company behind TOKEN HOMO’s ongoing film event series.

“Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.”

Werner Herzog

RADIANT CIRCUS first emerged from the aisles in 2017 as I started to explore London’s alternative cinema scene, blogging at the fringes of film about the shared rituals of cinema. Along the way I discovered many outstanding exhibitors and began compiling London’s most comprehensive and inclusive independent film event listings (at that time).

With the backing of loyal monthly subscribers at Patreon, RADIANT CIRCUS was called “London’s home of alternative screen culture” by screen agency Film London and “a really fantastic resource for film lovers” by Rochester Kino. I kept blogging through COVID but it was the cost-of-living crisis that stopped subscriptions in their tracks and put the project at peril. I therefore stopped listing in August 2023. Thank you to everyone who supported me. I really do miss knowing what’s on (and miss seeing so much!), but fabulous alternatives have emerged, and I wish them all really well in their adventures.

RADIANT CIRCUS continues as the production company behind my nom de cinéma, TOKEN HOMO, producing alternative cinema events at venues across London, like those archived below and detailed on this site. New projects will emerge, as they always do, but the core of everything is the joy of sitting in a dark room with strangers watching stories projected on the wall. There’s nothing like it. I can’t wait to see you in the darkness again soon. THx

EVENT ARCHIVE