31 March
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.
20 January
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
Are nuclear family homes an architectural tool of repression and social control? Turncoats returns for its third season tackling fundamental issues facing contemporary practice
13 November
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall, two idiosyncratic films tell two of its more unusual stories: the love affair and marriage between a Swedish woman and the wall itself, and a tale of its rise and fall from the perspective of its resident rabbits.
11 September
With devastating clarity, PUSH illuminates the shadowy transformation of the city into an epic financial instrument. Who and what are cities for, when we can’t afford to live in them? London premiere, followed by director Fredrik Gertten in conversation with Anna Minton.
2 July
A sensory, symphonic, sci-fi voyage through subterranean Madrid meets a night on the 1950s London Underground. Two cinematic trips into the depths of the hidden metropolis.
21 May
A triple bill presenting Agnès Varda’s cinematic explorations of her Parisienne neighbours – from lovers and drifters to shopkeepers and statues. Three rarely screened films – Daguerréotypes, Diary of a Pregnant Woman and The So-Called Caryatids – journeying from the lives of the silent majority to Baudelaire, via the magic of film. Introduced by Isabelle McNeill.
30 March
Tracing the route of California’s oldest freeway, stunning, stuttering images enmeshed in a tactile tapestry of sound offer a very different kind of road movie; a mesmeric, psychogeographic trip down 35 miles of blacktop into LA.
29 January
In Keiller’s (London, Robinson in Ruins) ‘lost’ film, a fictional researcher (Tilda Swinton) dissects Britain’s relationship with its extraordinarily expensive, backwards housing. Past architectural innovations do battle with present day crises, through a narrative of facts, fiction and interviews.
6 November
The UK premiere of Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) and Linda Goode Bryant’s award winning observation of a black working class neighbourhood as it receives an influx of white homosexual homebuyers, forcing identity, capitalism and community into collision.
19 September
A double bill of works by master Harun Farocki, examining architecture – from the micro to the macro – in order to interrogate the world. A dissection of the images of the ‘city-body’ meets a portrait of the labour of an architecture office.
24 May
In the unlikely Midwestern ‘Mecca of Modernism’, Columbus, Indiana, a pair seek respite in each other and the architecture that surrounds them. A delicate and stunning first feature. Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Kogonada, chaired by Catherine Ince.
