Nobunye Levin

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 film work. 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. Nobunye completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). Prior to her appointment at King’s, she was a Lecturer in the Film and TV Department at Wits, 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.