ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Radical Film Network's (RFN) exhibition sector in the UK. Unfortunately for those involved both in exhibition and other sectors of radical film culture, another characteristic shared by the vast majority of organisations involved are a complete lack of funding and a corresponding paucity of time and resources. It analysed two very different radical film exhibitors and their respective strategies for negotiating precarity. It focused attention the radical film exhibitors: Liverpool Radical Film Festival and Birmingham Film Co-op (BFC). These organisations have been selected because they offer both contrasting examples and instructive similarities to other groups in the sector. In the UK as elsewhere, radical film culture is a large and diverse - albeit precarious - facet of contemporary film culture but remains a significantly under-researched area. The chapter shows how radical film culture to be both alive and well and extremely diverse.
