Featured

FILM PROGRAMME

24 September 2023: Sven Klang's Quintet


Voted by Swedish film critics as one of the "25 greatest Swedish films ever", Stellan Olsson's tender drama is based on Henric Holmberg and Ninne Olsson’s play, about a small dance band in the late 50s.
read more

What's On

Thu 21 September, 8:15pm: Where Is the Friend’s House

Thu 21 September, 8:15pm: Where Is the Friend’s House

A boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken – and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday.
Fri 22 September, 8:15pm: Institute Benjamenta

Fri 22 September, 8:15pm: Institute Benjamenta

This striking live action feature from the master animators is a beautifully realised anti-fairy tale. The Quay Brothers' visionary style breathes life into every corner of this fragile world, which shimmers with luminous energy and hypnotic beauty.
Sat 23 September, 6pm Content Anxiety Programme 1

Sat 23 September, 6pm Content Anxiety Programme 1

Mysterious transmissions, long-forgotten video posts, frozen images lodged in the mind, animation erupting from the unconscious; this selection of films highlights the work of four artists, each operating with a highly distinctive and personal approach.
Sat 23 September, 8pm Content Anxiety Programme 2

Sat 23 September, 8pm Content Anxiety Programme 2

The first piece in the puzzle of artist Daniel & Clara's Avebury Imaginary project, Notes From a Journey uses images and sounds captured during a journey through the British countryside to Avebury stone circle as the material for an exploration at the edges of human perception and reality.
Sun 24 September, 6:30pm: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Sun 24 September, 6:30pm: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.

In September

3 - 30 September 2023: Il Posto

3 - 30 September 2023: Il Posto

A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man’s stumbling entrance into the perils of modern adulthood.
16 - 30 September 2023: Beau travail

16 - 30 September 2023: Beau travail

Denis and her near-constant collaborator, screenwriter Jean-Pol Fargeau, reimagine Melville’s Billy Budd as a tale of jealousy and homoerotic desire amongst a company of French Legionnaires in remote Djibouti. In a film of few words the soldiers' sculptural bodies become expressive markers of the ways in which belonging, tenderness and violence trouble contemporary masculinity.
29 September 2023: See You Friday, Robinson

29 September 2023: See You Friday, Robinson

We conclude our year-long retrospective on Jean-Luc Godard with Mitra Farahani's See You Friday, Robinson, a long-distance dialogue between Ebrahim Golestan, a giant of Iranian cinema and literature and Jean-Luc Godard. In memory of Ebrahim Golestan.

In October

1 - 28 October 2023: Close-Up on Andrei Tarkovsky

1 - 28 October 2023: Close-Up on Andrei Tarkovsky

Tarkovsky belongs to that handful of filmmakers who, with a small, concentrated body of work, created a universe. Though he made only seven features, thwarted by Soviet censors and then by cancer, each honoured his ambition to crash through the surface of ordinary life and find a larger spiritual meaning: to heal modern art's secular fragmentation by infusing it with metaphysical dimension.
7 - 12 October 2023: Deep End

7 - 12 October 2023: Deep End

Skolimowski wrote Deep End’s sexually charged and fable-like coming-of-age story of a young high school drop-out working in a decrepit London bath house. Expressionistically lurid colours and a celebrated soundtrack of early Cat Stevens and the avant-garde German rock group Can contribute to Deep End’s trance like qualities and feverish intensity.
8 - 15 October 2023: Bicycle Thieves

8 - 15 October 2023: Bicycle Thieves

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.

Calendar

Fri 22 Sep 8:15pm
Institute Benjamenta
Sat 23 Sep 6:00pm
Content Anxiety: Programme One
Sat 23 Sep 8:00pm
Content Anxiety: Programme Two
Sun 24 Sep 8:15pm
Sven Klang's Quintet
Fri 29 Sep 8:15pm
See You Friday, Robinson
Sat 30 Sep 6:15pm
Il Posto
Sat 30 Sep 8:15pm
Beau travail
Sun 01 Oct 4:30pm
Andrei Rublev
Sun 01 Oct 8:00pm
Nostalghia