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Greta Gerwig has finally received wider recognition with her breakout turn in art-house hit Frances Ha, yet she made one of her earliest screen appearances in this low-budget, wry, and refreshingly frank romantic-comedy.

 Consider the Fugue

Tim Robbins stars as Jacob Singer, a Vietnam veteran now eking out an existence as a postal worker on the downtrodden streets of Brooklyn, who begins to experience flashbacks and violent, disturbing hallucinations.

★★★★★ 'this will speak to your soul - even as its enveloping, disturbing, uplifting story sends your mind reeling with giddy possibilities' Time Out
★★★★★ 'I don't think I've seen anything as gloriously perplexing' - Jonathan Romney, The Independent

Set in a run-down boarding house in the North East of England, Frank is the debut feature film from Richard Heslop (known for his classic music videos for Queen, The Cure, The Happy Mondays, and New Order), preceded by his short film Floating and an introduction from the director.

This screening brings together Steven Cohen and Zanele Muholi's work in sole dialogue for the first time as a much needed geographic expansion to the ways discourses about gay lives, and counter-cultures, are charted globally.

Selected to coincide with Simon Pope’s Memory Marathon, A Clockwork Orange is Stanley Kubrick’s stylish, controversial take on Anthony Burgess’s novel about violence and free will.

The screening will include a discussion with Cytter and ICA Associate Curator of Artists’ Film and Moving Image, Steven Cairns.

Berlin-based artist Keren Cytter’s episodic video works evoke the format of sitcoms and daytime TV dramas, while her storylines reflect dramatic and intensely psychological situations that contradict their method of delivery.

Another chance to see The Stuart Hall Project, John Akomfrah's sensitive and emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932 - 2014).