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Tue 30 June, 6.30pm: Blood

Tue 30 June, 6.30pm: Blood

Few filmmakers can boast a body of work as audacious, beautiful or challenging as that of Pedro Costa. Languid and unsettling, beautiful and intimate, with echoes of Tourneur, Bresson, Ray and Straub-Huillet, Blood is both elusive and utterly mesmerising.
Tue 30 June, 8.15pm: Casa de lava

Tue 30 June, 8.15pm: Casa de lava

Cape Verde’s colonial histories and displaced emigrants have been central to many of Costa’s films, but his rarely seen second feature is the only one thus far to have been shot on the archipelago. Inspired by Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, this is one of Costa’s most direct reckonings with Portugal’s colonial legacy.
Thu 2 July, 6pm: The Liberated Film Club: The Otolith Group

Thu 2 July, 6pm: The Liberated Film Club: The Otolith Group

The Liberated Film Club welcomes The Otolith Group, an award-winning artist led collective founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002. Their moving image, audio works, performances and installations are characterized by an engagement with cosmogonic aesthetics that evoke the interscalar imagination of differentiated planetarity.
Thu 2 July, 8pm:   The Liberated Film Club: Light Industry

Thu 2 July, 8pm: The Liberated Film Club: Light Industry

The Liberated Film Club welcomes New York's Light Industry to London. Light Industry is a venue for cinema in all its forms in Brooklyn, founded by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter in 2008, and operated by them ever since.
Fri 3 July, 8.15pm: Mandy

Fri 3 July, 8.15pm: Mandy

Were scientists to engineer an uncut, 100-proof cult sensation, it would probably look, sound, and kick like this. Of course, like a lot of synthetic drugs, Mandy could also cause its fair share of overdoses, at least for those with a less-than sky-high tolerance for nonstop ‘trippy’ lunacy.
Sat 4 July, 3pm: The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On

Sat 4 July, 3pm: The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On

Kazuo Hara’s infamous and audacious documentary follows Kenzo Okuzaki, an ageing Japanese WW2 veteran, on a mission to uncover the truth about atrocities committed as the war in the Pacific reached its bloody end. Harrowing and extraordinarily powerful, Hara’s film forces us to face the disturbing realities of war and, crucially, to question the complicity between filmmaker, subject and audience.
Sat 4 July, 5.30pm: The Marriage of Maria Braun

Sat 4 July, 5.30pm: The Marriage of Maria Braun

The best known of Fassbinder's trilogy of historical films about the Federal Republic's "economic miracle" of the 1950s and one of the major productions of the New German CinemaThe Marriage of Maria Braun is equally a melodrama of the highest order.
Sun 5 July, 3.30pm: Histoire(s) du Cinéma

Sun 5 July, 3.30pm: Histoire(s) du Cinéma

Jean-Luc Godard's video series Histoire(s) du Cinéma, consists of eight episodes made over a period of ten years and is an extraordinary look at the medium through the eyes of this unique filmmaker. Hugely ambitious in scope, the series covers a wide range of topics from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and beyond.

Calendar

Fri 03 Jul 8:15pm
Mandy
Sat 04 Jul 5:30pm
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Sat 04 Jul 8:00pm
A Summer's Tale
Sun 05 Jul 3:30pm
Histoire(s) du Cinéma