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12 July

Architecture on Film: Unguided Tour (aka Letter From Venice), introduced by Brian Dillon

In writer Susan Sontag’s final film, Venice becomes stage and subject, in dialogue with a lovers’ weekend. Dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs stars as a tourist of melancholy, memory and fading romance.

14 March

Architecture on Film: Property + Q&A

Activist-director and independent cinema trailblazer Penny Allen’s satirical docudrama follows a collective’s attempts to save their neighbourhood

23 November

Architecture on Film: The American Sector + Q&A

Following its fall in 1989, many sections of the Berlin Wall migrated to the USA. A cinematic roadtrip to these transplanted artefacts of geopolitical division becomes a nuanced reflection on ‘the free world’ of the present. UK theatrical premiere.

22 September

Architecture on Film: Tokyo Ride + Q&A

Bêka & Lemoine (Koolhaas Houselife, Barbicania) embark on an intimate guided tour of Tokyo, as passengers of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ryue Nishizawa and his temperamental vintage Alfa Romeo. UK theatrical premiere.

10 July

Architecture on Film: City Hall (UK Theatrical Premiere)

Frederick Wiseman – one of cinema’s greatest documentarians – reveals the labour involved in making a city that works for its citizens, through observing Boston’s mayor and city government, in panoramic witness to the textures of democracy in action.

23 May

Architecture on Film: Into Great Silence

A transcendent observation of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps and its ascetic Carthusian order. A rare, transformative cinematic experience. A film that more than depicting a monastery, becomes a monastery itself.

15 March

Architecture on Film: Aalto

An intimate journey through the work, life and character of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto – one of the 20th century’s greatest modern designers. Screening exclusively at Barbican Cinema on Demand, 15 March - 30 April.

14 August

Architecture on Film: The Proposal

Artist Jill Magid’s 'post-mortem love triangle' takes us on the journey of her radical project to reanimate the privately-held archives of one of the 20th century’s most significant architects – Luis Barragán.

31 March

*POSTPONED* Architecture on Film: Into Great Silence

A transcendent observation of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps and its ascetic Carthusian order. A rare, transformative cinematic experience. A film that more than depicting a monastery, becomes a monastery itself. Future date TBA.

29 February

Congregation: One Day Festival

Headlined by Alain de Botton, this afternoon of talks will draw on the themes raised by Congregation, the Architecture Foundation's exhibition of recent religious architecture.

20 January

Architecture on Film: Fellini's Roma

100 years to the day after Fellini’s birth, 20 January 2020, the UK premiere of Cineteca di Bologna’s new 4K restoration of the Italian director’s bold, lavish and kaleidoscopic love letter to the Eternal City. Introduced by Alessandro Carrera.

9 January

Turncoats: Nuclear War

Are nuclear family homes an architectural tool of repression and social control? Turncoats returns for its third season tackling fundamental issues facing contemporary practice

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