Institute of Contemporary Arts

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  • The Machine That Kills Bad People: In der Dämmerstunde - Berlin + Observando el Cielo

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    In der Dämmerstunde - Berlin (Annik Leroy, 1980)
    This screening, programmed by The Machine That Kills Bad People, features Jeanne Liotta’s short film Observando el Cielo (Observing the Sky) (2007) and Annik Leroy’s In der Dämmerstunde – Berlin (From Dawn to Night – Berlin) (1980).

    Jeanne Liotta’s Observando el Cielo is an exploration of the cosmos. Liotta investigates the cosmic landscape at the intersection of art, science and philosophy. Through seven years of celestial observations captured on 16mm film, she reveals a world that is mysterious and profound.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 18:45

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • Sonic Cinema: Answering the Sun + Q&A

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    Sonic Cinema presents Rainer Kohlberger’s Answering the Sun – a maximal, stroboscopic colour odyssey to the limits of human perception. Riffing on the optical phenomenon that occurs when staring at the sun, Kohlberger’s first feature adeptly modernises avant-garde cinema’s long tradition of visual music and flicker in a 60-minute bombardment of coloured fields, Op art geometry, hallucinatory passages, and a wall of sound.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, June 24, 2023 - 16:30

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • OJOBOCA: True Counterfeits

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    Awe Shocks (Ojoboca, 2011)

    On their website, the filmmaking duo of Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy – who work together under the moniker OJOBOCA – describe themselves as practitioners of ‘Orrorism’. Their description of a “simulated method of inner and outer transformation” can only go so far in conveying the irresistible effect of their wry and often confoundingly labyrinthine creations.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, November 19, 2022 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • Avant-Noir Volume 3

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    Iseeyou (Simon Gush, 2013)

    Avant-Noir is an irregular film programme curated by Greg de Cuir Jr that surveys recent work by African and African diaspora film and video artists, alongside those engaging with African cultures. It is rare that we see Black bodies on screens at film festivals and exhibitions, perhaps even rarer when Black artists create those images.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 18:45

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • Soft Floor, Hard Film: Celebrating 50 Years of the London Film-Makers’ Co-op

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    Frieze Video and LUX present Soft Floor, Hard Film: 50 Years of the London Film-Makers’ Co-op.

    Formed on October 13th 1968, the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative (LFMC) grew out of a series of screenings in the basement of counter-culture book store, Better Books, on Charing Cross road to become a pioneering organisation incorporating a film workshop, cinema space and distribution office. Radical in its early ideals, the Co-op played a crucial role in establishing moving image as an art form in the UK and internationally.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, October 14, 2016 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • Avant-Noir Volume 2

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    My Only Idol is Reality (Martine Syms, 2007)

    Avant-Noir surveys contemporary work by moving image artists about African and African diaspora cultures. It is rare that we see Black bodies on screens at film festivals and exhibitions, perhaps even more rare when those images are created by Black artists.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 18:45

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • no.w.here's 10th birthday at the ICA

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    Cornerhouse Artist Film presents the special compilation of artist film to celebrate no.w.here’s 10th birthday. A unique space for artist film and moving image based in East London, no.w.here has bespoke film equipment not available anywhere else in the UK and is a vital production space for artists to innovate and experiment. 

    This screening includes work by artists Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty, James Holcombe, Ben Gwilliam, Hang Jun Lee, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards and Vicky Smith. Set up Karen Mirza and Brad Butler in 2004, no.w.here also presents a year round programme of events, screenings, workshops, schools education, residencies, studios and publications. This project has been developed with the support of Film Hub North West Central, part of the BFI's Film Audience Network.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, November 16, 2014 - 12:00 to Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:55

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

  • Frans Zwartjes: The Great Cinema Magician

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    Purge and the ICA present the films of Frans Zwartjes in their original 16mm format. Acclaimed as 'the great cinema magician' in his native Holland, and widely considered 'Holland’s preeminent experimental filmmaker', Zwartjes is also a painter, craftsman and musician: a polymath who defies categorisation, following in and ultimately expanding a tradition of great Dutch masters.

    Zwartjes creates 'highly stylised, poetically claustrophobic films which achieve a unique level of sensual intimacy in their renditions of sexual and domestic tension, and voyeurism.'

    Championed by Susan Sontag ('the most important experimental filmmaker of his time') and Amos Vogel (distributor of Zwartjes’ films in the US), and recently subject to a large retrospective at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, this ICA screening is the first time that these films have ever been shown in the UK in their original format.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, May 11, 2014 (All day)
    Tuesday, May 20, 2014 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom

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