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 Q&A with director Fredrik Gertten.
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.
26 April
A special event bringing together some of the most revered architecture teachers working in the UK to explore how and why they teach.
20 March
A vital and absorbing portrait of the Calais ‘jungle’ and its community of displaced migrants. Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval's crucial film treats its epic content with great sensitivity. UK Premiere.
17 January
A symphonic yet intimate journey around the world with Rem Koolhaas, reflecting upon his career, projects and philosophy through the architect’s eyes and words. Extra screening on 20 January.
14 January
Dutch pioneer of the interface between culture and TV, Jef Cornelis, offers a feature length interview with Rem Koolhaas from the beginning of his career, in 1985. Extra screening on 20 January.
