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Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a reclusive vampire who has come to the conclusion over the course of the centuries that, for humanity, 'all the sand is at the bottom of the hourglass'.

Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated.

A screening of the feature length version of The Act of Killing, one of last year's most critically acclaimed documentaries, followed by a Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer.

Writer, academic and critic Shahidha Bari presents Freud and the Non-European, Edward Said's exploration of the limits of identity.

For the inaugural Parallel Visions event guest curator Trevor Jackson will create within a specially commissioned installation a multi-dimensional experience inspired by Richard Hamilton’s Palindrome (1974).

Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond (Woman In The Moon) was the first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a detailed manner, meticulously accounting the science involved behind launching a spaceship from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon.

To complement Richard Hamilton at the ICA, an artist who was fascinated by experimentation and modernity, this ICA Cinematheque series of screenings explores visionary cinema from the past and how it can anticipate and provoke current debates on the interaction between technology and the human condition.

Artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s 1979 feature length film Ticket of No Return weaves an eccentric and highly stylised portrait of Berlin’s bars and nightlife.

Weaving together archive footage, commentary from those who knew him, and intimate one-to-one interviews, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a portrait of a complex man, and of one of the most dazzlingly fearless critics of our time. Followed by a Skype Q&A with the director.

Set at a beautiful lakeside spot in southern France, Alain Guiraudie’s atmospheric thriller is an erotic mix of the comic and the tragic, deservedly winning Alain Guiraudie the Best Director for Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.