Programme 2016
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.
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.
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).
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](http://www.essayfilmfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Still-from-Perfumed-Nightmare-1977-1024x736.jpg)
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.