Alien Nation

Science fiction, race and contemporary art collide in the work of twelve contemporary international artists.

Former Clinton adviser and Guardian columnist Blumenthal talks to Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times about how the Bush administration has fundamentally and irrevocably altered the nature of the American government.

A mind-boggling mix of science-fiction, blaxploitation, free jazz, Black Panther politics and home-made aesthetics.

David Bowie's big-screen debut as an alien visitor.

Simon O'Sullivan talks about imagined universes and art's appropriation of subcultures.

A British drama directed and co-written by Todd Haynes and set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s.

Portrait of flamboyant New Wave diva Klaus Nomi.

A time-capsule cult movie from 1982: a pleasure-seeking alien's encounter with casual sex and heroin abuse in New York.

Gallery Talk: from Brides of Funkenstein to Octavia Butler, Zoe Whitley beams up to Starship Black Female

Jackie Stacey, editor of Screen, talks about how the new genetics and sci-fi cinema cause us to imagine our bodies and the racial and sexual differences between them.