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Thu 24 October, 8.15pm: L’argent

Thu 24 October, 8.15pm: L’argent

In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.
Sat 26 October, 5.30pm: The Chess Players

Sat 26 October, 5.30pm: The Chess Players

This special screening marks publication of Chess Players: From Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan, the latest archive publication by Spitalfields-based Fuel Design. An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians.
Sat 26 October, 8.15pm: Japón

Sat 26 October, 8.15pm: Japón

Recruiting a cast of non-actors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican country­side with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable.
Sun 27 October, 4.30pm: The Saragossa Manuscript

Sun 27 October, 4.30pm: The Saragossa Manuscript

Has' oneiric trance film famously uses a Russian doll structure to leap across time and space, following its unlikely hero across a series of bleak, frightening yet strangely exuberant, landscapes, largely set in a dream Andalusia. The Saragossa Manuscript fully deserves its legendary status as one of most unclassifiable and extraordinary cult/art films of the postwar European cinema.
Sun 27 October, 8pm: Slap the Monster on Page One

Sun 27 October, 8pm: Slap the Monster on Page One

Like Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, Slap the Monster on Page One comes from the fascinating intersection between genre cinema and Italian political filmmaking of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film tells the pulpy tale of a right-wing newspaper editor who labours to frame an anarchist for rape and murder in an attempt to swing an upcoming election.
Thu 31 October, 8:15pm: One Minute Volume Ten

Thu 31 October, 8:15pm: One Minute Volume Ten

One Minute Volume Ten is the tenth in the series of artist moving image programmes curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry. The programme is an eclectic mix of films all within the duration of one minute by artists at varying stages of their careers.

Calendar

Thu 24 Oct 8:15pm
L'argent
Sat 26 Oct 5:30pm
The Chess Players
Sat 26 Oct 8:15pm
Japón
Sun 27 Oct 4:30pm
The Saragossa Manuscript
Sun 27 Oct 8:00pm
Slap the Monster on Page One
Thu 31 Oct 8:15pm
One Minute Volume Ten