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.

From April 22 to 25, the Alfred ve dvoře theater will host the 8/16 Festival, focusing on contemporary experimental films and expanded cinema. The festival is a continuation of an irregular series focused on experimental film that Alfred ve dvoře has been organizing since 2019, and which, over the past two years in collaboration with labodoble, has established significant connections with the international audiovisual scene.

Archéologie de la lumière invites us into the heart of Minganie’s landscapes in Quebec. A place surrounded by countless presences. Everything there is perception. Every perception emerges from the interplay between the observer’s gaze and the living world: the trees, the moss carpeting the forest floor, the water winding through rocks, light filtered by the canopy, the sun’s reflection on the restless sea, the northern lights dancing across the night sky. To perceive is to attune ourselves to the movement of air and wind, to the distant clouds gathering and heralding a storm.

Open City Documentary Festival is excited to announce the full programme for its 16th edition, taking place in person from 14th to 19th April.  Throughout the week we’ll be screening 125 new and historical films across London at our venues Barbican, Bertha DocHouse, BFI, Close-Up Film Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Rich Mix, where the Festival Hub will be based.