Bringing back the underground spirit of our early days, this year's Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) includes a block of experimental shorts. The program, Celluloid Synergy, features work previously screened at AAIFF from the 1970-90s by seminal experimental filmmakers (Danny Yung, Takahiko Iimura, Al Wong, Sean O'Gara) alongside more recent films of the next generation (Erica Sheu, Tiffany Jiang). We are very excited to see many of these films again on the big screen after so many decades, please join us!  

During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese filmmakers and artists disrupted the status quo with happenings, performances, events and political protests. The boundaries of art film were also expanded considerably. Julian Ross, an expert on the Japanese avantgarde, will talk about this underexposed history.

As part of their inaugural festival, pic.london presents a two-day film programme exploring the relationship between still and moving images. Beginning with film’s infancy at the end of the 19th Century – through the 1960s avant-garde – this programme investigates the ways in which artists and theorists have engaged the moving image to develop, challenge and critique photographic language.