Programme 2016

Programme 2016


Mark Rappaport. Debra Paget, 2015

Session 1: New Works by Mark Rappaport

Thursday 17 March 2016, 6pm-9pm, Birkbeck Cinema
Tickets £4.00 to £6.00

Experimental filmmaker and video essayist pioneer Mark Rappaport will present and discuss examples of his recent video work, none of which have been shown before in the UK.


VISITA OU MEMÓRIAS E CONFISSÕES (Manoel de Oliveira, 1982)

Session 2: Visit or Memories and Confessions

Friday 18 March 2016, 8.30pm, ICA Cinema 1
Tickets £7.00 to £11.00

UK premiere of Manoel de Oliveira’s posthumously released film, an intimate reflection on life and cinema. Introduced by José Manuel Costa, Director of the Cinemateca Portuguesa, Museu do Cinema.


Session 3: The Academic Audiovisual Essay? [in]Transition Preview Screenings

Saturday 19 March 2016, 10.30am-12.15pm, Birkbeck Cinema
Free event, booking required

Presented by co-editor, film scholar and video essayist Catherine Grant (University of Sussex/Film Studies For Free), followed by a discussion.


Session 4: Essay Film Festival 2016 presents “Festival of (In)appropriation, #8”

Saturday 19 March 2016, 12.45-2.30 pm, Birkbeck Cinema
Free event, booking required

A showcase of contemporary, short audiovisual works that repurpose existing film, video, or other media in inventive ways.


Richard Misek. Rohmer in Paris 2013

Session 5: Rohmer in Paris

Saturday 19 March 2016, 2.45-6.00 pm, Birkbeck Cinema
Free event, booking required

Screening of  Richard Misek’s Rohmer in Paris, with Misek in conversation with film scholar Erika Balsom (Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art, 2013).


Sarah Wood, Three Minute Warning, 2012

Session 6: Sarah Wood: Lost Film Found Film

Saturday 19 March 2016, 8.30pm, ICA Cinema 1
Tickets £7.00 to £11.00

Filmmaker Sarah Wood will be in conversation with Catherine Grant (University of Sussex, Film Studies for Free)


Still from Perfume Nightmare, [Mababangong Bangungot], dir. Kidlat Tahimik, 1977

Session 7: Perfumed Nightmare

Sunday 20 March 2016, 6.30pm, ICA Cinema 1
Tickets £7.00 to £11.00

Screening of Perfumed Nightmare, dir. Kidlat Tahimik, 1979, followed by discussion.


Session 8: The Silent Majority Speaks

Sunday 20 March 2016, 8.30pm, ICA Cinema 1
Tickets 7.00 to £11.00

UK premiere of The Silent Majority Speaks, dir. Bani Khoshnoudi, Iran, 2010/2014, followed by a Q&A with Bani Khoshnoudi.


Session 9: Arts Council Documentary Essays

Monday 21 March 2016, 2.00-5.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema
Free event, booking required

A double bill of two films produced by the Arts Council of Great Britain in the 1980s: A Sign is a Fine Investment (Judith Williamson, 1983) and Being and Doing (Ken McMullen and Stuart Brisley, 1984).


Sinong Lumikha ng Yoyo? Sinong Lumikha ng Moon Buggy? (Who Invented the Yo-Yo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy?) by Kidlat Tahimik, 1979

Session 10: Who Invented the Yo-Yo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy?

Monday 21 March 2016, 7.30pm, Goethe-Institut
Booking required

Screening of Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? dir. Kidlat Tahimik, 1979, followed by a Q&A with Kidlat Tahimik.


Bakit Dilaw Ang Kulay ng Bahaghari (Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?) by Kidlat Tahimik, 1994

Session 11: Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 7.30pm, ICA Cinema 1
Tickets £7.00 to £11.00

Screening of Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?, dir. Kidlat Tahimik, 1994, followed by a Q&A with Kidlat Tahimik


Image courtesy Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Marian Stefanowski

Straying on Track – Special event and screening with Kidlat Tahimik

Wednesday 23 March 2016, 10.30am-3.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema
Tickets £4.00 to £6.00

Filmmaker and artist Kidlat Tahimik will look back over his forty-year career and discuss his highly original working methods.


The Host, dir. Miranda Pennell, United Kingdom 2015, DCP, 59 minutes 11 seconds, colour/B&W, 16:9, stereo

Session 13: The Host presented by Miranda Pennell

Wednesday 23 March 2016, 5pm, ICA Cinema 1
Tickets £7.00 to £11.00

Artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell will present her latest film, and be in conversation with activists and researchers about oil narratives and the cultural politics of oil.


Balikbayan # 1 - Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III, Kidlat Tahimik, 2015

Session 14: Balikbayan #1- Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

Thursday 24 March 2016, 8pm | ICA Cinema 1
Tickets £7.00 to £11.00

UK premiere of Balikbayan #1- Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III followed by a Q&A with Kidlat Tahimik.