Artists’ Film Club

Lois Rowe's films and videos explore the limits of language, and often exploit the narrative voice as a slippery form.

Berlin-based artist Nashat presents a selection of his videos from the past five years

London-based artist Melanie Gilligan will screen and discuss a new film, commissioned by the ICA as part of the recent Talk Show season.

Lucile Desamory creates surreal, mystical vignettes reminiscent of early cinema.

February’s Artists’ Film Club features the work of Dutch artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh.

June's Artists' Film Club features a special presentation of a work by artist Grace Schwindt that investigates contemporary, personal negotiations of German history.

A screening of seminal social drama Kuhle Wampe. The film, scripted by playwright Bertolt Brecht, tells the story of a young couple in 1930s Berlin whose families are affected by unemployment.

The ICA is pleased to present the London premiere of Comuna Under Construction, a film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler, followed by a conversation between Ressler and curator Ben Borthwick.

Rollo Jackson, a London-based filmmaker who grew up immersed in the city’s dance music culture of the mid-90s presents Tape Crackers, an oral history of Jungle music.

Foreign Language for Beginners (2010) is the latest project by Nada where ten inmates of the Sangonera detention center in Murcia, Spain, have recorded videos that observe their living conditions and legal obstacles, under the third grade system - an EU law intended to provide detainees a form of semi-freedom

This month's Artists' Film Club premières new work by Matei Bejenaru and Dan Acostioaei, members of the Vector Association.

Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson present their awarding film Lobbyists (2009) which comically explores the role of lobbyists in European government.

Artists' Film Club is proud to present the London premiere of Rachel Reupke's recent work 10 Seconds or Greater.

With a nod to Samuel Beckett's humour, Duncan Campbell juxtaposes the inherent promise of storytelling with the breakdown of narrative and the inevitable disintegration of meaning.

Mark Aerial Waller defies conventional screening formats, integrating sculptural objects and live performances for an experience of cinema defined in spatial and situational terms.

Jennifer West is an American artist known for her digitised films that are made by hand manipulating film celluloid to the level of performance.

This Artists' Film Club brings together recent works by four London-based practitioners who use digital media to produce narrative, and non-narrative moving-image works.

Simon Starling's film, Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima), recounts the drama of the making of masks for Japanese Noh theatre during a six month long process.

Presents a curated screening of double 16mm projections by Lisa Oppenheim, exploring the relationship between film process development and subject.

This Artists’ Film Club features several of Dóra Maurer’s films alongside recent works by a number of her contemporaries.

Luke Fowler premieres his latest film, influenced by the work of Psychiatrist R.D. Laing and the social and cultural revolutions taking place in the 60's.

This Artists’ Film Club considers the bridges between Radio, Television and Cinema in a selection of moving image works by artists Aleksandra Domanović, Tobias Kaspar, Jonathan Horowitz, Gordon Schmidt and a performance by Stephen Sutcliffe.

Artists’ Film Club features a screening of rare 16mm Stan VanDerBeek films, followed by a Q&A session with curator Mara McCarthy and artist Judith Bernstein.

A screening of Nancy Holt’s works followed by a Q&A led by ICA Associate Curator of Artists' Moving Image, Steven Cairns.

Derek Jarman’s Jubilee, 1977, is a dystopian tale of time-travel and punk set in 1970s London.

Bringing together a selection of artists who contributed to SOUNDWORKS, this Artists' Film Club looks at the relationship between sound and moving image to consider sound as a performative gesture.

ICA resident artist Luke Fowler’s 2009 trilogy explores the links between sound and image.

Two intimate works by Luke Fowler explore the profiles of key figures in experimental and underground music.

Moyra Davey’s long form film Les Goddesses (2011) parallels personal narratives with those of Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the founding figures of Feminism.

On Saturday, a special double-bill screening of works by William E. Jones including Midcentury, 2012, and Is it Really So Strange?, 2004, is followed by a discussion with William E. Jones and ICA Associate Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, Steven Cairns.

There will be a repeat screening of Is it Really So Strange? on Sunday.

The late Owen Land’s final long form work Dialogues, or A Waist Is A Terrible Thing To Mind, an episodic tale of love and hate. It will be followed by a screening of his 20 minute short film Wide Angle Saxon (1975).

A screening of 'Gravity and Grace', which tells the story of Ceal Davis and her relationship with a mysterious man awaiting the arrival of aliens. Accompanying readings by James Richards and Sam Thorne.

LA-based filmmaker Laida Lertxundi’s short 16mm works map physical and psychological geographies while experimenting with cinematic conventions.

Nick Zedd’s Cinema of Transgression manifesto outlines the subversive nature of underground cinema from 80s and 90s NY film-makers.

Manu’s Spleen (I-V) is a series of five films made by renowned German sculptor Rosemarie Trockel between 2000 and 2002.  

Emily Wardill’s first feature length film Fulll Firearms (2011), reimagines the Winchester Widow's paranoia in a modern day melodrama

Nightcleaners Part 1 was a documentary made by members of the Berwick Street Collective about the campaign to unionise office cleaners.

The UK premiere of the German artist Isa Genzken’s Die Kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) (Little Bus Stop [Scaffolding], 2012).

London-based filmmaker Laure Prouvosts’ first feature length work The Wanderer (2012) is based on a translation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis by artist Rory Macbeth.

From his early works to his recent performances and installations, London-based artist Mark Leckey has engaged with the iconography of popular culture.

This Artists’ Film Club presents a selection of works which explore how individual and collective histories are embedded in public monuments and architectural structures.

London-based filmmaker Laure Prouvost’s short films are the subject of this Artists' Film Club. The screening will also include a selection of influential shorts selected by the artist, who will be present to discuss her work.

9 Intervals is a multi-episode digital film by Aurélien Froment which uses the common chair and the seated position of the cinema viewer as a way of addressing the relationship between design and body, viewer and image.

London-based artist Ed Atkins will screen recent work and be present for a post-screening Q&A.

The UK premiere of Clemens von Wedemeyer’s Muster, originally shown as a three-channel installation at Documenta 13, 2012. This new single-channel version investigates the twisting of history, and will be followed by a Q&A with Clemens von Wedemeyer.

Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw shows a selection of his films from the 1980s to the present.

Edinburgh-based artist Naheed Raza presents Frozen in Time, a commission exploring the phenomenon of cryonics, alongside other recent works, followed by a Q&A with writer Eleanor Nairne.

A two-part series of screenings exploring location, time and the role of memory in our understanding and relationship to urban and rural space.

Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal’s first feature, with cinematography by Wilhelm Sasnal.

The UK premiere of Loris Gréaud’s The Snorks: A Concert for Creatures, featuring Anti-Pop Consortium, Charlotte Rampling and David Lynch, followed by a Q&A with the director.

Loris Gréaud’s short film The Snorks: A Concert for Creatures forms part of a long-term project conceived by the French artist – a pop concert for creatures living at the depths of the ocean. 

Romanian collaborators Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor’s films explore political and historical legacies, primarily those of Eastern Europe.

Collective Action brings together a selection of works that investigate and highlight moments of collective and individual action that challenge social and political paradigms.

This screening of Abraham Cruzvillegas' Autoconstrucción (2011) draws together his interests in society, class, sex and gender.

Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba's films and installations explore language and the conventions of cinema. Investigating the cinematic landscape of traditional cinema, she turns her lens to forgotten or little-seen spaces while deconstructing the function of language and narration. Followed by a Q&A.

New York-based Swiss artist Olaf Breuning’s Home trilogy is the subject of this screening. Each 30 minute film follows Breuning’s alter ego, played by Brian Kerstetter, as he travels to a range of exotic locations across the globe in a continual state of cultural anxiety.

Berlin-based Israeli artist Dani Gal’s films investigate social and political tensions, and historical narratives. This screening includes the recent Nacht und Nebel (2011), a 22 minute retelling of political intrigue based on an interview conducted by the artist with a Holocaust survivor. Followed by a Q&A with Gal.

This group screening explores sociality and nationality in the Middle East, revealing a variety of perspectives on territory, landscape and national borders – coinciding with the exhibition Points of Departure.

Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth’s videos, photographs and performances highlight simple gestures and repeated actions, uncovering the complexities of identity.

We are pleased to welcome seminal Los Angeles-based filmmaker Kenneth Anger to introduce and discuss his work, alongside a rare opportunity to view a comprehensive survey of his practice spanning nearly six decades, from 1940s to the present.

Coinciding with Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery the artist presents Unreal Forest by Jakrawal Nilthamrong and Broken Hill Man by Musola Cathrine Kaseketi.

London-based artist Bonnie Camplin’s films undo facets of contemporary culture and reconstruct them in unique combinations of sound and image, often evoking notions of subcultures and the underground.

Like her printmaking, drawing and photography, Jennifer Bornstein's 16mm films capture simple and enigmatic actions, while her recent video work frames social interaction and dialectic exchange.

Neil Beloufa’s moving image works look at social interaction and conversation. Set in often mundane or ambiguous settings his characters play out scripted events that reveal subtle consequences and intimate gestures.

Cara Tolmie’s videos, performances and installations unravel conventional narrative constructs, often dealing with sound, language and interpretation.

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.

Memory Marathon documents a large-scale participative event in which artist Simon Pope walked a 26 mile marathon route through the five London boroughs that went on to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A screening of New York and Berlin-based Ken Okiishi’s recent film The Deleted Scene (2012), alongside Telly and Casper (2000), followed by a Q&A with Okiishi.

Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade’s 60 min film 4,000 shots (2010) was captured on a single roll of Super 8 film and comprises 4,000 snapshots of anonymous male faces captured on the streets of Buenos Aires.

Kirschner and Panos’ recent film Ultimate Substance (2013) is shown alongside the late Greek filmmaker Nikos Nikolaidis’ Euridice BA 2O37 (1975) followed by a Q&A with the artists.

Polish artist Agnieszka Polska investigates histories using filmic and animation techniques. Uncovering little known narratives, and often elaborating on modern folklore she creates new and fascinating worlds on film.

The UK premier of Agnieszka Polska's Future Days (2013), followed by a performative lecture by Agnieszka Polska and Sebastian Cichocki, in which they elaborate on the issues presented in the film.

Adopting a variety of storytelling techniques, both traditional and contemporary, Ulla von Brandenburg creates tableaux and narratives involving elaborate casts of characters and musical interludes.

Dublin-based French artist Aurélien Froment investigates objects and our relationship to them in analytical detail.

Jon Rafman presents the world premiere of his latest film I dig, you dig, and it, the worm, digs too (2013), as well as a short survey of some of his recent works, followed by a Q&A.

Rotterdam-based Serbian filmmaker Katarina Zdjelar explores sound, language and translation in her moving image works. Often dealing with identity politics or wider social issues her films slowly unfold in series of precise edits set to carefully crafted scores. Followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Masculine/Feminine is a group screening examining the objectification of gender on film, featuring works that represent both ends of the gender spectrum as well as the grey area between masculinity and femininity.

A unique screening of 16mm and 35mm films by the late Marcel Broodthaers including The Battle of Waterloo (1975), which captures the Trooping the Colour and his exhibition Décor: A Conquest, which took place at the ICA in 1975.

An event celebrating the ICA's Channel 4 Random Acts commissions with artists Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Gail Pickering, Elizabeth Price and Mark Aerial Waller featuring a unique screening of the newly commissioned shorts alongside live extensions of the work.

London-based filmmaker Ursula Mayer presents her recent film Medea (2013) alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea of 1969. The programme features an introduction by the artist.

Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda investigates anthropological forms in her film and paper-based work, and for this screening she presents a new edit of recent work, accompanied by a live score performed by musicians Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols.

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.

This screening draws together a cross-section of artists who investigate the everyday from a contemporary perspective referencing everything from music videos to consumer culture, often via the internet.

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

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

Helena and Miwako (2013) is the sci-fi road movie made by collaborators Ei Arakawa and Henning Bohl, a film which reveals the personal histories of a family unit unfolding, placed alongside questions of generational overlaps and parenthood.

Steven Claydon’s work nods to the Modernist rhetoric, destabilising historical reference points in an attempt to disrupt the viewer’s feeling of nostalgia.

In a wide ranging conversation, queer theorist Jack Halberstam and queer media artist Zach Blas cover the basics and the not so basics of queer technology.

This screening brings together two works that investigate the affective and political dimensions of different modes of acting and performance, Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, 2011-13, and Uncanny Valley, 2013.

A group screening exploring the influence of colour and its use to evoke mood and rhythm, as well as its function as a narrative device.

Dublin-based French artist Aurélien Froment investigates images and our relationship to them in analytical detail, weaving fact and fiction with unusual narrative devices.

French artist and filmmaker Adrien Missika captures unknown landscapes and foreign territories in his work - this screening includes many short films alongside an influential work selected by the artist.

Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong shoots on 35mm, focusing on human conditions and the individuals of his generation in a rapidly modernising China that has rewritten its traditional values and culture.

Keren Cytter’s episodic video work evokes the format of sitcoms and daytime TV dramas, but her storylines reflect dramatic and intensely psychological situations that contradict their method of delivery.

A panel discussion unpacking the dynamic relationship between commissioning, collecting, curation and preservation of artists' film.

In this two-day seminar, curators Paul Perioni, Vivian Ziherl and Łukasz Mojsak share their experience and expertise in working with Moving Image and event based practices through a series of presentations and discussions.

Anti-Junkie-Light, selected by artist Nina Kӧnnemann, explores the use of coloured light in public spaces and experimental film.

Sam Smith has been selected by online video platform Vdrome to perform Notes on the Apparatus, his live video essay that takes the form of a stream of collaged audio-visual clips. Plus a Q&A with artist and Vdrome curator Filipa Ramos.

Cichocki’s programme The Day After Everyday explores the concept of a banal and mundane apocalypse ‒ an army of emancipated office machines, stray dogs, mutated plants and devils marching towards us.

In the first of a three-part retrospective, this programme draws on the absurdity that often arises when contexts are juxtaposed or realigned.

Artist Ken Okiishi selects a programme for the Artists’ Film Biennial 2014.

An associated screening of Matthew Noel-Tod and Benedict Seymour’s Can Dialectics Break Gravity? and Laure Prouvost’s after after (2014).

A panel discussion on the influence of late 20th and early 21st Century popular culture on artists' moving image and the recoded visual language used by artists.

This symposium, a collaboration between Birkbeck School of Arts and the ICA, examines how the non-visible may or may not be brought to light.

The second retrospective programme, Learning the Absurd, draws together a diverse selection of works that connect childhood with adult pursuits and vice versa.

Curator Vivian Ziherl has selected a programme of films for the Artists' Film Biennial that deal with themes of dance in translation to moving image, including the London premiere screening of two new works produced between artists and choreographer-dancers.

Selected from the Artists’ Film Biennial Curatorial Open Call, Avant-Noir surveys the work of contemporary film and video artists who are engaged with Africa and the African Diaspora, and is followed by a Q&A with curator Greg de Cuir Jr.

A panel discussion on recent developments in artists’ film and moving image, looking at the future of the artists’ feature film with Rebecca Shatwell, Shezad Dawood, Sarah Turner and Duncan Campbell with a contribution from Christian Jankowski

The final retrospective programme, Believe Me, takes a focused look at belief structures, in particular those of the art world, and is followed by a Q&A with Christian Jankowski and Steven Cairns.

London-based artist Hannah Sawtell gives a live collage presentation alongside a programme of short films and found footage selected by the artist.

Turner Prize nominee Duncan Campbell’s early work Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2004) is the subject of this Artists' Film Club, and is presented alongside the short abstract work o Joan, no (2006)

Steven Claydon’s work nods to the Modernist rhetoric, destabilising historical reference points in an attempt to disrupt the viewer’s feeling of nostalgia.

In a live performance event, artist Ahmet Öğüt presents a filmic intervention in collaboration with London-based musicians Bora Akıncıtürk, Serhan Arcağ and Deniz Belendir (Fino Blendax), creating four unique soundtracks that respond to a recent feature film by director Kaan Mujdeci.

French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili looks at diaspora and the modern migrant in her moving image work.

This comprehensive two-part screening draws together a cross section of Michel Auder’s output, from early pieces to recent works.

This comprehensive two-part screening draws together a cross section of Michel Auder’s output, from early pieces to recent works.

L.A.-based artist Ryan Trecartin’s videos – known for their dense, surreal narratives and high-octane pacing – explore language and the fluid nature of identity while spotlighting the contradictions and nuances of American culture.

The late Alain Resnais’ third feature film, Muriel (1963), is selected by artist Neïl Beloufa in conjunction with his exhibition Counting on People (24 Sep – 16 Nov 2014).

Loretta Fahrenholz’s films are diverse in subject matter, and her juxtaposition of pop culture references with intense human interactions creates an uneasy presence on screen. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

A two-part presentation of Dutch artist Melvin Moti's 35mm moving image work, encompasses a discussion and Q&A with the artist.

A special compilation of artist film, part of a celebration of the East London artist-run non-profit film space no.w.here’s 10th birthday.

This programme features works that privileges the act of problematizing as embodying potential.

The Sixth Year is an art world drama series in five episodes, which re-interprets the format of the TV series.

London-based artist Mikhail Karikis will screen and discuss a recent work with invited guests.

A selection of newly restored works from Jarman’s ninety-two Super 8s will be screened at this event.

This screening of films explores the complex legacies of Portuguese colonialism and the development of a modernist discourse in several African countries

Nevin Aladağ’s short films, like her performance and installed works, highlight social and political borders alongside moments of cultural translation. With a particular interest in sound, Aladağ also often investigates urban and natural environments.

Crackle of Time tells the story of the impossible project: to build an opera village in Burkina Faso, a space combining art and life, with a school, theatre, hospital, living quarters, a football field, and a lunchroom.

Mathieu K. Abonnenc devotes his work to the forgotten or marginalized areas of recent history, figures and events associated with the 20th century’s struggles for emancipation of identity.

Featuring work by Gabriel Abrantes, Marwa Arsanios, Wojtek Doroszuk and Marie Voignier, Continental Drift is a group screening of works in which geographic location plays a significant role in the narratives constructed on screen.

Glasgow-based artist Deniz Üster will screen and discuss recent work with guests, Matthew De Abaitua and Nerea Calvillo.

Oliver Laric attempts to overhaul the preconceived formulas of video and sculpture. The screening of his work will be followed by a Q&A.

The first in a two-part group screening Breaking Joints, featuring work by Rosa Aiello, Cécile B. Evans, Josh Kline, Stewart Uoo and Guan Xiao.

Pioneering filmmaker and artist Charles Atlas has, for over four decades, fused experimental film, art, dance collaborating with choreographers and dancers including Merce Cunningham and Michael Clark Company.

A screening of the work of influential Italian artist and filmmaker Gianfranco Baruchello, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

The second in a two-part group screening Breaking Joints, featuring work by Juliette Bonneviot, Lucy Clout, Renaud Jerez, and Julie Béna.

Paris-based artist Iván Argote will screen and discuss recent work with invited guests, Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Kunkel.

A documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in Los Angeles that has been a home for Latin/LBGT immigrant communities since 1963.

Avant-Noir surveys contemporary work by and about African and African diaspora moving image artists and cultures.

Documentary An Afternoon with Mike Kuchar featured alongside several of Kuchar’s recent short films and an introduction from director Oscar Oldershaw.

Beijing-based artist Li Ran presents a programme of moving image work.

Are you an artist working in moving image, looking to apply for Film London’s FLAMIN Productions funding scheme? Join the team as they outline the application process alongside clips from previously supported films.

London-based artist and filmmaker Sebastian Buerkner’s unique style is explored in a series of his short works and discussed in a Q&A with the artist.

Both Sides Now explores the political and social connections and differences between the UK, China and Hong Kong.

London-based artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson presents her recent films F for Fibonacci (2014) and Solo for a Rich Man (2015); both inspired by William Gaddis’ novel JR (1975).

Tenderflix is an international film and video competition. The submission theme for this, the 8th edition, was ‘Futures’.

A screening of three frieze films and a panel discussion between artists Pablo Bronstein and Anthea Hamilton, chaired by design critic Harry Thorne, explores the relationship between contemporary art, design and matters of taste.

What really motivates our intimate relationships and actions? Transactions of Desire—also the title of two new publications—is an exploration of our emotional responses against the demands of society

A screening of films selected for Film Open 2015, a new screening programme of artist films.

Is all looting progressive? Are all copies an improvement on their originals? Artist and writer Benedict Seymour premieres his new feature-length work, La re- (2015), which explores these questions by repeating and reworking the plot of French filmmaker Chris Marker’s La jetée (1962).

A screening of Derek Jarman's documentation of his 1984 ICA exhibition.

Alpi (2011) is the result of seven years of research on contemporary perceptions of the landscape of the Alps, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight bordering nations and spanning the territories of four languages.

This screening accompanies the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 exhibition and is selected by participating artist Jasmine Johnson.

In light of a number of recent articles and exhibitions exploring the relationship between painting and the digital, or sculpture and screen media, this event asks why artists continue to cling to traditional artistic disciplines even as they explore themes of technological change.

Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016 recipients Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams present a selection of their work in discussion with Film and Video Umbrella Director Steven Bode.

Moving Image has formed a significant aspect of Mark Wallinger’s practice throughout his career. This screening draws together single screen works made between 1993 and 2011 and is presented alongside a conversation with the artist.

This screening features new and recent work by artists Jacolby Satterwhite and Cecile B Evans.

East Asia Moving presents recent work by artist filmmakers from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore, giving a brief glimpse into moving image practices from East Asia.

A five-day celebration of artists’ film and moving image.

An account of Ming, Al, and Antoine Yates, who cohabited in a high-rise social housing apartment at Drew-Hamilton complex in Harlem for several years until 2003, when news of their dwelling caused a public outcry.

Coco Fusco revives and embodies the chimpanzee animal psychologist Dr. Zira from the original Planet of the Apes films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A screening of Austrian analogue filmmaker Peter Tscherkassy’s work, featuring the UK premier of The Exquisite Corpus and followed by a Q&A with Peter Tscherkassky and director Peter Strickland.

A screening of work by David Lamelas, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

The second screening of work by David Lamelas, including his first film A Study of Relationships between Inner and Outer Space.

A screening of two moving image works by David Lamelas, including film noir Light at the Edge of a Nightmare.

A screening of works by Hildegarde Duane and David Lamelas, including The Dictator, Sheherazade and The Dictator Returns.

The fifth screening of work by David Lamelas.

This screening features new and recent work by artists Lucy Beech and Mariella Senatore, followed by a discussion with the artists.

Berlin-based artist and writer Hannah Black presents an event incorporating her moving image work, readings, sound and performance.

The Coat is a loose adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Birds which follows the intersections of five drifters as they set out for something better in the Italian south.

In 2001, artist and filmmaker K8 Hardy set out to document her daily outfits on video. This screening is followed by a Q&A with the artist.

German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger blends Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) with Virginia Wolf’s novel Orlando (1928) in this rarely screened tale.

To coincide with the launch of the latest round of FLAMIN Productions, Film London’s unique two-stage commissioning scheme, FLAMIN introduces the scheme and outlines the application process

This film documents Christoph Schlingensief at his artistic and image-generating best, on 27 eventful days that ultimately redefined his artistic vision.

A screening of films by Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker Leslie Thornton, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

On the 50th anniversary of the formation of The London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, Frieze Video presents a new short film about the influential organisation.

A mind-bending free-form travelogue that charts late filmmaker Chris Marker's journey from Africa to Japan.

A screening of recent work by Columbus-based artist Dani Leventhal, followed by a Q&A led by Mason Leaver-Yap.

A diverse group of films on the city of Chandigarh, India, followed by a conversation between curator Shanay Jhaveri and academic Erika Balsom

An Artists' Film Club screening of Part I of Naeem Mohaiemen's films examining the moments of mis-recognition in revolutionary left movements of the 1970s followed by a discussion with the artist.

An Artists' Film Club screening of Part II of Naeem Mohaiemen's films examining the moments of mis-recognition in revolutionary left movements of the 1970s followed by a discussion with the artist.

An Artists' Film Club screening of Part III of Naeem Mohaiemen's films examining the moments of mis-recognition in revolutionary left movements of the 1970s followed by a discussion with the artist.

A screening of a collection of film and video from China and Hong Kong that explores displacement, migration and memory

An Artists' Film Club event celebrating the life and work of the late artist Ian White.

An Artists' Film Club screening of work curated by art criticism website and research project The White Pube.

An evening of video and readings presented by Ghislaine Leung.

A screening, reading and performance event intervening in Stuart Marshall's curated programmes of artist's video for his 1991 ICA retrospective.

A screening of the recent work of Egyptian artist Basim Magdy.

A screening of Marlon T. Riggs' seminal documentary on Black gay life.

A screening of Ellen Cantor's document of an extended moment in New York and London avant-garde art and culture.

In attendance, Paris-based artist Bonny Poon’s screens her feature-length film 'Beautiful Balance' for its UK premiere.

An irregular film programme curated by Greg de Cuir Jr that surveys recent work by African and African diaspora film and video artists, alongside those engaging with African cultures.

Both visually enticing and subtly complex in its narrowing of artistic and generational hierarchies, this UK premiere of Madison's 'das blut, im fruchtfleicsch gerinnend beim birnenbiss' is followed by a conversation on collaborative approaches to filmmaking.

A programme of video and audio works by the artist, investigating the intersection of sound, the built environment and politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler’s profile of Martin Bartlett, an electronic music composer who conducted pioneering experiments with microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s.

Artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler’s profile of Martin Bartlett, an electronic music composer who conducted pioneering experiments with microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s.

Restored from the only existing full theatrical print, this special Halloween screening is the strangest, darkest and funniest pornographic film you are likely to see.

The European premiere of the artist's first feature-length work which charts the ways we document ourselves and the lives of others.

Uncovering the hidden routes and consequences of the global arms trade, this documentary has been adapted from writer Andrew Feinstein’s book of the same title.

The films featured in this screening explore shifts in the ways Black Identity is defined on screen and how these stories affect our ever-changing global culture.

Participants are invited to bring in archival materials including old photographs, images and video clips to explore the radical context in which they can exist in through filmmaking.

With precise editing and composition, this film opens out the role of the artist in a generous and subtle dialogue.

This new film, here in its first UK showing, unpicks the social and political history and implications of architecture.

The first European screening of this collaborative interpretation of Mozart’s two-act opera.

The Battle of Lewisham recounts the 1977 National Front march through Lewisham, and the resistance from the local community.

The artist-filmmaker's first solo presentation of moving image work in the UK, whose work reappraises colonialism and the routes of the slave trade for their underlying contemporary significance.

Artist Shen Xin presents a screening of new and recent video work.

Set in Tokyo’s underground gay scene in the 1960s, Matsumoto’s disorientating counter-cultural narrative is part quasi-documentary, part fiction and unrestrained experiment.

A rare selection of short films by the pioneering Japanese filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto (1932–2017).

A lyrical film by Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell set amid the cultural mythologies, fakery and shared hallucinations of Los Angeles.

Artists Tony Cokes, Branda Miller, Ellen Cantor, Peter d’Agostino and Ed Emshwiller explore the power of ‘the media’.

On writing about artists’ and experimental film, led by critic & curator Ed Halter, and artist & editor Sam Ashby.

Frank Simon‘s rarely screened documentary follows a 24-year-old drag queen named Flawless Sabrina.

Two new works by ICA commissioned artists Ayo Akingbade and Célia Hay.

Two surreal works commissioned by the ICA investigate architecture and place, accompanied by live performance.

A selection of new and recent work by Laura O’Neill whose CGI worlds are populated by bulbous characters and unknown creatures.

A programme of artists’ films exploring the impact and legacy of colonisation.

Jeff Preiss’ feature-length STOP crosses time and geography in a biographical record captured on 16mm.