Celebrated artist-filmmaker Christopher Harris will be in London this May for a series of screenings at Tate Modern and the Barbican Centre. The programme, spanning both venues, includes the UK premiere of his latest film, Speaking in Tongues Take One—an experimental interpretation of Ishmael Reed’s 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo—as well as a work-in-progress screening of God Bless the Child, an autobiographical exploration of the artist’s experiences as a foster child.

At the Barbican next month this programme mixes canonical masterpieces of experimental cinema, with contemporary films, linked together by their explorations of the monumental within the everyday, confronting memory, community, and identity with intimacy and innovation taking inspiration from Noah Davis's Delusions of Grandeur.

Stefanie Weberhofer has visually contemplated the Alpine region around Dachstein with her Super 8 camera since 2022. She has transformed panoramas of landscapes and close-up details as well as footage of popular and elite sports, structural interventions in nature, and signs of human-driven climate change into filmic experiments, impressively exploiting the artistic potential of analog Super 8 film. As she films, her subjects are rhythmized, multiplied, and captured with long-exposures or time-lapses.