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A Nos Amours continues a retrospective of the complete film works of Chantal Akerman with Dis Moi  (1980) in which the filmmaker, herself a daughter of a holocaust survivor, engages for the first time with the Shoah.

Taking the architect Jane Drew and the display at the ICA as a starting point, the salon examines how the integration of the vernacular practices presented a crisis within universal modernism and the relationship between the process of de-colonisation and modernist planning.

Contemporary American philosopher Graham Harman, the leading figure associated with the metaphysical movement object-oriented ontology, delivers his lecture Objects and the Arts. This event is being run on a pay-what-you-can basis.

In a near-future Los Angeles, hi-tech, utopian living is the norm and only emotional intimacy seems lacking – at least for Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), an affable ex-journalist now writing syrupy ‘personalised’ letters for those who don’t have the skills.

Longlisted for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Oscar, this charming drama centres on Ahlo (Disamoe), a hapless boy from Laos who is believed in his community to be the bringer of bad luck.

A weekend series of screenings surveying the work of artist and filmmaker VALIE EXPORT, including introductions and Q&As by the artist.

A programme of short films drawing together a significant cross section of her moving image works.

The multi Academy Award winning Dallas Buyers Club sees Matthew McConaughey play Ron Woodroof, a carefree party animal whose life is rocked to the core when he contracts HIV from a one-night stand.

VALIE EXPORT introduces her feature length 16mm film Invisible Adversaries (1977).

Kate Hardy discusses Women, Resistance, Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham, an historical overview of the close interaction between women’s liberation and revolutions.