Dr Nobunye Levin is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. She is a filmmaker and scholar. Her films and research are concerned with experiences from the Global South expressed through film aesthetics, the politics of aesthetics, radical cinemas, decolonial feminisms, anti-racism, and tactics of feminist filmmaking. She is the author of several essays on her films. Her recent film work includes Dreaming is serious work (2025) and the video essay Reverie (2023), made in collaboration with Palesa Shongwe. Reverie received the runner-up award for videographic criticism at the 2025 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies awards. Based on Reverie, Nobunye and Palesa have also published In Reverie: Two Love Letters to Vinah in the artistic research journal PARSE (2024).

Nobunye completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Prior to her appointment at King’s, she was a Lecturer in the Film and TV Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Decolonising Screen Worlds in the ERC-funded 'African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies' project, situated at SOAS, University of London.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Feminist filmmaking
• Southern theory
• Experimental and radical cinemas
• Decolonial feminisms
• The politics of aesthetics
• Anti-racism
• Artistic Research

Teaching

Nobunye covers a wide range of topics and critical perspectives in her theory-praxis driven filmmaking pedagogy and teaching.

Expertise and public engagement

Nobunye's films have been screened internationally at festivals and in other cultural events, including the Durban International Film Festival and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She has presented her film work, participated in panels and given papers at many international conferences. These include the Screen Studies Conference, BAFTSS, the African Literature Association conference and the PARSE Artistic Research conference. She has given public talks and screenings at HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg, UCL and the Netherlands Film Academy. Nobunye has introduced screenings and moderated panel discussions at the Garden Cinema, The Joburg Film Festival and the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival.