The second edition of attic’s Chinese Short Film Program invites audiences to collectively explore the idea of “rest” through a curated selection of short films and a participatory activity.

Rehearsal for Rest responds to a familiar condition: the difficulty of slowing down. Even in moments of pause, our thoughts stay in motion. Rest often becomes another task, another performance. As the year winds down, this program offers a space to step back from that pace and consider, quietly, what rest might mean again.

To mark his visit to Paris for his residency at Light Cone's Atelier 105, Braquage is dedicating a session to the American artist Dicky Bahto. The program will explore his early works, his direct connection to the material vitality of film, and his collaborations with musicians.

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Program:

*Please note: due to the interactive nature of Line Describing a Cone, tickets are limited.

A one-night-only program of three historic artists’ films – featuring a projection of Anthony McCall’s landmark Line Describing a Cone, which can only be experienced in person.

Barking Community Cinema presents Afterimage, Afterlife; a selection of Mexican experimental short films that reflect on the form of absence in the face of violent histories. Moving between fragments and spectres, the works in this programme explore our camera-mediated understanding of turbulent times, turning to images as sites of both testimony and artifice. Reassembled archives, scratched surfaces and unsettling collisions summon lingering ghosts, whose traces resist systemic erasure and undermine official narratives. Gestures commemorating loss become acts of protest, inviting a tactile encounter with histories whose meanings have been obscured by conflict.