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Bengi Ünsal Named as New Director of the ICA London

10/01/2022

Bengi Ünsal will become the first woman to serve as the organisation’s director in over five decades...

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Cinematic Drawings: Marie Harnett

18/12/2021

British artist Marie Harnett discusses her love of film, capturing fleeting moments and the silvery gleam of pencil...

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Means of Escape: Sarah Morris at White Cube

16/11/2021

This Friday, White Cube Bermondsey will open a major solo show by American artist Sarah Morris...

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Marina Abramović Opens Two Shows in London

19/09/2021

The Serbian performance artist presents two solo exhibitions spread across Lisson Gallery's London spaces ...

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Alberta Whittle: “I Felt the World Unravelling”

07/08/2021

Turner prize-winning artist Alberta Whittle on her latest film and treating her audience with generosity...

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Traversing Time: An Interview with Sutapa Biswas

19/06/2021

Ahead of the opening of a major survey at the Baltic, Sutapa Biswas discusses her creative processes and the making of her new film...

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Rachel Maclean’s Fantasy Worlds at Jupiter Artland

01/04/2021

A solo exhibition opening this May at Jupiter Artland will showcase a four seminal works and new commission by the renowned Scottish artist...

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Two Major Solo Exhibitions Celebrate the Work of Sutapa Biswas

19/03/2021

Solo exhibitions at BALTIC and Kettle’s Yard will look back on the British Indian artist's career and showcase a new film exploring issues of migration...

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Grasping the Eternal: Tacita Dean’s ‘Fernsehturm’

19/02/2021

Tacita Dean’s 44-minute long film ‘Fernsehturm’ records the passage and persistence of time as light passes through the interiors of the Berlin TV Tower restaurant...

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Tate Modern screens Shirin Neshat’s 1999 film ‘Soliloquy’

06/01/2021

A rarely seen video work by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is revived from the Tate's collection, and will be free to view (when the museum reopens) until the beginning of February...

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Larry Achiampong: Relics of Time

03/01/2021

A new film by artist Larry Achiampong reflects on how the fragility of the present brings hope for a more liberated and accepting future ...

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Rear View: Voyeuristic Images at White Cube

13/12/2020

A review of White Cube’s online exhibition inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller 'Rear Window' and the seductions of looking...

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A Different Kind of Different

23/11/2020

An animated short film by artist Jordan Baseman explores the psychological impact of breast cancer....

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Virginia Woolf Might Have Preferred an Audiobook

16/11/2020

What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? shines brightest when it focuses not on Woolf’s life, but on her actual words and how she used them. ...

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Helmut Newton’s Naughty Little Self

23/10/2020

In person, Helmut Newton was downright disarming, innocent and a little boyish. Until you saw the pictures. And then… he morphed into something downright dangerous. ...

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Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes

13/10/2020

A cinematic portrait of legendary musical innovator Delia Derbyshire takes a conceptual and atmospheric journey into the legacy and character of the music composer / sound pioneer....

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Submissions Now Open for 16 Days 16 Films

16/09/2020

Now in its third year, the initiative, which advocates to combat violence against women, will take place from 25 November – 10 December 2020....

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Espresso, Chianti… Maser-a-ti!

22/07/2020

In 2020: The Summer of COVID, interweb-streaming Italian-racecar cool is about as close to true freedom as car buffs are likely to get. ...

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In Bright Axiom: The House of the Latitude

14/07/2020

As an introduction to the secret society, this documentary is a disjointed narrative where the whole is less than the sum of occasionally fascinating parts....

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Barbican Announce Cinema On Demand

10/07/2020

The Barbican's first ever streaming service builds on the current digital content programme from the centre's cinema, creative learning, gallery, music and theatre curatorial teams....

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Gorillas, Trains, Whips and Chains

20/05/2020

Barring no holds, Hollywood Bound is a well-curated, hilariously captioned collection of major-studio movie bondage that serves up equal helpings entertainment and old-Hollywood nostalgia. ...

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Whitechapel Gallery Launches Artists’ Film International Programme

25/04/2020

Language is the common theme for this year's AFI programme, with every artist's film using language to intensify place. ...

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NFTS Releases Key Findings of Graduate Impact Report

20/03/2020

The National Film and Television School has evolved to become a leading global institution, developing some of Britain and the world’s top creative talent....

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The Last Faust - Philip Humm

Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

30/12/2019

A film for a specific taste is Phillip Humm's The Last Faust really that indigestible? A review and an entreaty for more divisive filmmaking ...

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French New Wave: A Revolution in Design

04/12/2019

This meticulously researched book from Reel Art Press is an extensive collection of French New Wave posters, which were equally as innovative as the films themselves....

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One Night Only for New Gorillaz Documentary

27/11/2019

Gorillaz: Reject False Icons is the first ever all-access immersive journey into the world of Gorillaz and its extended family....

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Shextreme Film Tour Goes Nationwide

06/11/2019

The world’s first film festival celebrating women in extreme sports and adventure launches its first UK tour this winter....

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Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over?

10/10/2019

The most affecting film of 2019 has created debate and controversy, Trebuchet takes a closer look examining these and the underlying message at its core. ...

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Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film

01/10/2019

The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film is a scrupulous study of a film’s inception and its progression through to finish....

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Filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky First Full UK Retrospective

21/08/2019

The award-winning Mexican filmmaker is best known for his innovative documentaries which chronicle the struggles of Mexico’s indigenous population against environmental threats and societal...

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