The Goethe-Institut London, together with Club des Femmes and in cooperation with the ICA, presents a selection of films directed by Elfi Mikesch. Best known for her work as a cinematographer with Rosa von Praunheim, Monika Treut, Friederike Pezold, Heinz Emigholz, Cynthia Beatt, and Teresa Villaverde, Mikesch has also developed a uniquely genre-blending body of work as a director, which has had a significant influence on feminist and queer cinema.
Dates:
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, June 7, 2026 (All day)
When Hiroyuki Oki (1964-2025) passed away suddenly late last year, Japan lost one of its most singular and tireless artist-filmmakers. His amorphous work, traversing documentary and fiction, frequently harnessed smaller, more intimate forms of cinema (8mm, 16mm, video, the home movie) for their unique potential. This program brings together four such ‘small’ works—short films in which a direct mode of filmmaking comes to express a sense of erotic desire and longing.
Sonic Cinema presents a programme of ten short films, bringing together the practices of Vienna-based filmmakers Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf for the first time.
Magaluf Gallery presents Chill Fatalism, a focused programme of recent works by New York-based filmmaker Ken Kobland. Shown as a continuous loop, the selection sits closer to an exhibition than a conventional screening, structured as a durational presentation in which viewers may enter and leave at any point.
Japanese experimental filmmaker Kaori Oda uses her camera as a navigational tool, feeling her way through unfamiliar worlds, particularly subterranean terrains, in her “underground” experimental non-fiction features. These films are dazzling visual and sensory experiences that at first seem preoccupied with remote, unlivable landscapes. Yet within even the most extreme locales, Oda reveals a strikingly syncretic world – one in which nonhuman landscapes converse with human memories, desires, and cosmologies.
Dates:
Thursday, November 20, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, November 23, 2025 (All day)
The Diaspora Suite by Ephraim Asili Jazz on Screen Thu 13 Nov 2025, 18:30,Cinema 2
A film series created over the course of seven years exploring Black culture and the African diaspora through jazz and shared histories, using music to shape its rhythm, energy and visual language.
In the two decades of the 1960s and 1970s, a wave of filmmakers united into film clubs, and film collectives, a shift from an individual, hierarchical model of production to one based on fluidity and embracing the DIY and ‘amateur’ spirit of such collaborations. Nevertheless, the screening and post-screening talk aim to emphasise the labour of female filmmakers within such collectives, who are often written out of the narratives of their radical efforts.
Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto.
Dates:
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 14:30 to Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 18:30
