Film
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Village at the End of the World
10 May 2013 - 26 May 2013
What would you do if you were 16, lived in the most remote village in the world, and were the only teenager? Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) spent a year in a remote village in Northern Greenland, and delivered this extraordinary documentary.
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ICA Cinematheque: King of New York
23 May 2013
The first large-budget production from Abel Ferarra, controversial director of Driller Killer and Bad Lieutenant, features an unforgettable performance from Christopher Walken as gangland drug baron Frank White, who recently released from prison sets out to be 'King of New York'.
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It's Such a Beautiful Day
3 May 2013 - 26 May 2013
For almost 20 years, Don Hertzfeldt has been one of the world's most inventive, prodigiously talented and bracingly sardonic directors of hand-drawn animated film. It's Such a Beautiful Day is his scintillating feature debut.
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Our Children (À Perdre La Raison)
10 May 2013 - 23 May 2013
Young, effervescent and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir, but she soon finds herself drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic.
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My Neighbour Totoro
24 May 2013 - 30 May 2013
A universal classic for all generations, My Neighbour Totoro shows Japanese animation's famous Studio Ghibli at its very best, and is an elegy to two ever-fading miracles: the fairytale world of childhood and the disappearing countryside.
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Juha
24 May 2013
In 18th century Eastern Finland, the eponymous farmer Juha raises and then marries the orphaned Marja, only for her to fall prey to the advances of visiting trader Shemeikka. Hailed as a classic of Nordic cinema, Juha is the only full-length feature film produced by Aho & Soldan.
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Beware of Mr Baker
24 May 2013 - 30 May 2013
Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.
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Grave of the Fireflies
24 May 2013 - 30 May 2013
The beautiful story of Seito and his little sister Setsuko as they struggle to survive when their mother is killed in an air-raid in WWII.
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Finland Calling + Programme 1: Heike and Bjorn
25 May 2013
A programme of commercially produced films for trade and industry which demonstrate the duo's proclivity for presenting perhaps otherwise fairly dry subject material in a visually engaging fashion.
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The Stoker
25 May 2013 - 28 May 2013
A pitch-black comedy and stylistic tour-de-force of filmmaking from Russian director Alexey Balabanov, telling the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
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Members' Screening: The Swamp (La Ciénaga)
26 May 2013
For this month's Members' Screening we delve again into the ICA Films archive to present this striking debut feature from Lucrecia Martel, acclaimed Argentinian director of The Headless Woman (2008).
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Programme 2: Claire Aho + Tempo
26 May 2013
Heikki Aho’s daughter Claire is the unifying figure for this second programme of shorts. Followed by Tempo, a silently lyrical documentary of the paper-making process in Finland, which presents this large-scale manufacturing process as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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Splinters
29 May 2013
A fascinatingly layered essay film that charts a century in Finnish history, using the prism of the Aho-Soldan family to explore concepts of time and memory, of national identity, and of the way the arts both reflect and enrich a society.
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A Nos Amours: Frost
30 May 2013
A Nos Amours presents a 16mm print of the authorised director's cut of Frost, from the acclaimed German cinematographer and director Fred Kelemen, introduced by film critic Jonathon Romney.
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Blow Up
31 May 2013 - 2 June 2013
Coinciding with the launch of EP Vol. 1: The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976, Alex Coles has selected a variant of a detective thriller - the detective being replaced by a fashion photographer - for a special screening, connecting film of the period with art, design, architecture and theory.
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Man to Man
31 May 2013 - 6 June 2013
Featuring Tilda Swinton in a tour de force one-woman performance, Man to Man is a reworking of East German dramatist Manfred Karge's play about a woman who experiences 50 years of German history in the guise of a working man.
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Made of Stone
5 June 2013 - 13 June 2013
With unprecedented access to previously unseen archive footage, The Stone Roses: Made of Stone is a revealing journey through the life of one of the most revered and influential bands in British music history.
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Piercing Brightness
7 June 2013 - 9 June 2013
Piercing Brightness is the debut feature film directed by acclaimed visual artist Shezad Dawood, scripted by cult novelist Kirk Lake and with an original score by Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple.
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Rudolph Herzog presents Dr. Strangelove
8 June 2013
An introduction by Rudolph Herzog to his new book A Short History of Nuclear Folly, an account of history's most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology, followed by a screening of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
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Fathers of Pop
8 June 2013
A documentary on Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group investigating their outputs and links with the ICA.
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Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull
9 June 2013
A screening of films by two of the founding members of the Independent Group – an opportunity to see the renowned sculptors moving image work from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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The Dancer
11 June 2013
The Dancer provides an insight into Indonesia's social, cultural and political backgrounds in the sixties, through the tale of two lovers from a poor village in central Java who are separated by the anti-communist purge in 1965.
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Lovely Man
12 June 2013
Cahaya, a 19 year old Muslim, leaves her small village in search of her long lost father Ipuy, who left when she was four. A provocative and powerful film about a father-daughter story unlike any you've seen.
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What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love
13 June 2013
At a special needs boarding school, the students are like any other teenagers: outside of their visual limitations, they attend classes, pursue artistic endeavours, and occupy their minds with love and dreams.
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Postcards from the Zoo
14 June 2013
A beautiful and dreamlike adventure telling the story of Lana, a girl raised by a giraffe trainer after being abandoned in Jakarta zoo.
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Opera Jawa
15 June 2013
A traditional Indonesian tragedy is reworked into a visually stunning and award winning musical in Opera Jawa, telling the story of a man who has doubts about his wife's fidelity, all but driving her into the arms of another.
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The Blindfold
15 June 2013
From Indonesia's leading film director Garin Nugroho, The Blindfold tells the story of three young people lured into a radical Islamic organisation.
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The Act of Killing (Director's Cut)
28 June 2013 - 4 July 2013
In this chilling and inventive documentary, produced by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love.
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Shubbak: Round Trip + The Curse + Familial Fever + Q&A
4 July 2013
As part of the Shubbak festival celebrating the very best of contemporary culture from across the Arab world, two short films followed by the UK premiere of Round Trip, plus a Q&A with the director and lead actor.
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Blondiefest: TV Party
5 July 2013
A screening of edited highlights of TV Party, the late 1970s US cable TV show that featured Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, introduced by Tony Fletcher.
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Blondiefest: Videodrome
5 July 2013
A screening of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983), a disturbing and surrealist techno-horror starring Debbie Harry.
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Blondiefest: Hairspray
6 July 2013
Debbie Harry stars in John Waters’ Hairspray, a glamorous and comic story of showbiz dreams and racial segregation, set in 1960s Baltimore.
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Blondiefest: Wigstock - The Movie
6 July 2013
Join us for a special screening of Wigstock - The Movie, Barry Shills' 1995 film about the annual NYC East Village drag festival including Debbie Harry in the line-up.