The East London Experimental Film Club is BACK! Next Thursday the 24th July at 7:30pm, we are returning to Good Shepherd Studios with the first London screening of Viera Čákanyová’s experimental documentary Frem (2019), one of the most buzzed-about films shown at Berlinale Forum in 2020.
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent beyond the point of no return, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, FREM presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on earth: King George Island off the coast of Antarctica.
Before Frem, we're setting the mood for the Slow Film Festival, which returns to Good Shepherd Studios on 20–21 September 2025 for two full days of slow cinema. In collaboration with the festival, we’ll be presenting a highlight from a past edition: Meltse van Coillie's elephantfish (2018). In this enigmatic short film, we find ourselves aboard a cargo ship, drifting in an endless sea. The sailors cope with the vast emptiness in time and space in their own particular ways. Gradually imagination rises from beneath the surface and takes the helm…
Tickets are pay what you can (suggested £7 admission / £5 concession)