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Current Programme
Artists’ Film & Moving Image
Summer Exclusives
25 July – 1 September 2022
A summer-long showcase of five outstanding recent features from around the world – available to watch in the UK exclusively at the ICA Cinema.
Retrospective: Tsuchimoto Noriaki
1 – 18 September 2022
The first UK retrospective of the work of the Japanese documentary maker, in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.
UK PREMIERE Hideous + Q&A
Tue, 6 September
Oliver Sim (The xx) and director Yann Gonzalez join us for a screening of their new short film – marking the release of Sim’s album
Hideous Bastard
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Open City Documentary Festival
7 – 13 September 2022
The open space for nurturing and championing the art of non-fiction cinema returns for its 12th edition.
UK PREMIERE Mija + Q&A
Wed, 7 September
Two US-born children of undocumented Mexican immigrants try to shape their own American dreams in Isabel Castro’s masterful cinematic portrait.
Videodrome on 35mm
10 – 21 September 2022
A rare and welcome 35mm outing for David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic, marking the release of his latest feature
Crimes of the Future
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ICA EXCLUSIVE I Am a Town + Q&A
Thu, 15 September
The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America, screening only at the ICA.
PREVIEW Sidney
Thu, 22 September
A special preview of Reginald Hudlin’s documentary exploring the life and legacy of trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier.
Portraits from an Other Germany: The Early Films of Helke Misselwitz
24 – 25 September 2022
A weekend-long celebration of one of the most significant documentary filmmakers of the German Democratic Republic, with her participation.
John Smith: Introspective (1972 – 2022)
1 October – 1 December 2022
Spanning 50 works across 50 years, this major survey celebrates the work of one of London’s most radical and influential artist filmmakers.
BFI London Film Festival 2022
5 – 16 October 2022
The festival returns for its 66th edition at the ICA and in venues across London.
Women’s Stories from the Global South (& To Whom They Belong)
19 – 26 October 2022
This compelling season covers 42 years, five countries, and five recently restored or digitised features, each linked to a uniquely challenging story of ownership and distribution.
UK PREMIERE Habit + Q&A
Thu, 20 October
Writer, director and Glass Eye Pix founder Larry Fessenden joins us for the UK premiere of his memorably dark New York horror.
The Short Films of Fronza Woods + Q&A
Sat, 29 October
Shown for the first time in the UK in a brand new restoration, Woods’ two short films follow funny, clever, wise heroines in the New York of the late 1970s.
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Artists’ Film & Moving Image
New releases available to stream for a fixed period
Collective Mobilisation
27 May – 1 September 2022
Join us for this summer-long season dedicated to the best in contemporary Portuguese cinema – programmed by the ICA with pioneering production house TERRATREME.
Hit the Road
29 July – 7 September 2022
A close-knit Iranian family takes a momentous road trip in Panah Panahi’s wonderful debut – winner of the Best Film award at last year’s BFI London Film Festival.
Cinema 3
All Light, Everywhere (online)
12 August 2022 – 26 February 2023
Theo Anthony’s feature questions and reimagines the idea of the ‘objective lens’ in reference to 21st-century American policing.
Free Chol Sol Lee
19 August – 1 September 2022
Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s gripping social history retells the story of a Korean-American journalist’s fight to free an innocent man in 1970s San Francisco.
Anaïs in Love
19 August – 1 September 2022
A charming but untameable free spirit ricochets from lover to lover in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sparkling romantic comedy.
The Rest is History: The Early Days of Drum and Bass
20 August – 4 September 2022
First-time director Peter Costigan unearths the story of one of Britain’s most electrifying musical subcultures.
Cinema 3
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People (online)
26 August – 26 September 2022
A comic book character goes to war with his creator in Cesar Cabral’s gloriously crazy stop-motion feature – the latest Summer Exclusive.
Official Competition
26 August – 5 October 2022
Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have a world of fun in Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s vivid satire on the film industry.
Queen of Glory
26 August – 1 September 2022
A follow-up on the classic immigrant’s tale from debut director Nana Mensah – the story of a heroine coping with death, betrayal and cultural expectations.
Summer Exclusives
UK PREMIERE Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
26 August – 6 September 2022
A comic-book character goes to war with his creator in Cesar Cabral’s gloriously crazy stop-motion feature – the latest Summer Exclusive.
Dry Ground Burning
2 – 15 September 2022
Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta explore the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of an all-female gang who hijack a pipeline for the sake of their community.
The Territory
2 – 13 September 2022
Alex Pritz’s urgent and riveting documentary follows a young indigenous activist’s fight against his oppressors in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
Wildhood
2 – 8 September 2022
A teenager flees his trailer park home to explore his complex heritage, identity and sexuality in Bretten Hannam’s finely crafted debut feature.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
9 – 21 September 2022
Luis Buñuel’s Oscar-winning masterpiece returns to cinemas in a radiant 4K restoration to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Crimes of the Future
9 September – 5 October 2022
David Cronenberg returns with a typically unsettling journey into a coming dystopia, starring Léa Seydoux and longtime collaborator Viggo Mortensen.
Ride the Wave
9 – 15 September 2022
Martyn Robertson’s debut feature is an intimate portrait of 14-year-old Scottish surfer Ben Larg and his quest to break into the big league of international surfing.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
10 – 15 September 2022
Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton star in George Miller’s sumptuously ambitious tale of a
djinn
who offers an academic three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Strawberry Mansion
16 – 28 September 2022
A surveillance state conducts ‘dream audits’ to collect taxes on its population’s unconscious lives in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s satiric romance.
Funny Pages
16 – 29 September 2022
Owen Kline’s breathtakingly subversive debut feature is a black comedy following an impressionable young American cartoonist on a misguided pursuit for authenticity.
Bloody Oranges
16 – 22 September 2022
Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s giddily inventive feature weaves several apparently unrelated threads into a captivating portrait of 21st-century French society.
ICA EXCLUSIVE I Am a Town
16 – 22 September 2022
The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America – screening only at the ICA.
Moonage Daydream
23 September – 6 October 2022
Brett Morgen’s extraordinary feature surveys and celebrates the life, music and unending inspirations of David Bowie.
Sidney
23 – 29 September 2022
Reginald Hudlin’s documentary explores the life and legacy of trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier.
In Front of Your Face
23 September – 6 October 2022
Hong Sang-soo’s latest exploration of the human condition is also a powerful love letter to his home city of Seoul.
Silent Land
23 September – 2 October 2022
An affluent couple face down a trauma at their holiday villa in Agnieszka Woszczyńska’s enthralling first feature.
Invisible Demons
30 September – 6 October 2022
An environmental disaster is brewing in New Delhi and Rahul Jain unsettling documentary details the profound impact of pollution and climate change.
Girls Girls Girls
30 September – 6 October 2022
Three young female friends fall quickly in love in Alli Haapasalo’s empowering coming-of-age drama – a recent Sundance Award-winner.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Mutzenbacher
30 September – 6 October 2022
Ruth Beckermann’s feature uses the 1906 novel
Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore
, published anonymously, as a starting point to grapple with male sexuality.
Midwives
30 September – 6 October 2022
Two women bravely breach Myanmar’s religious divide in in Hnin Ei Hlaing’s astonishing and revealing documentary feature.
La Clef revival: A Survey in Three Programmes
28 – 30 October 2022
The Paris-based collective co-curate a series of programmes and events around the notions of physical venues and collective experiences, with two screenings, discussions and a symposium.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
Wed, 9 November
Two dozen Texans face off in a ludicrous competition to win a pick-up truck in SR Bindler’s classic 1997 documentary – screening as an ICA Exclusive.
Events
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Artists’ Film & Moving Image
One-off screenings and events rooted in discourse and debate.
Current Transmissions (online)
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Stream some of the works featured in this showcase of new film, audio and interactive work by emerging London-based artists.
Olivia Plender, Hold Hold Fire + discussion
Sat, 15 October
A screening and discussion with the artist Olivia Plender, and academics Janna Graham and Kirsten Lloyd.
INCHOATE BUZZ
Wed, 16 November
A screening of Leah Walker’s new film of Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome’s project
INCHOATE BUZZ
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