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A major cinema season<br />
exploring the London<br />
landscape on film<br />
18 Sep–2 Oct 2013<br />
barbican.org.uk/<br />
urbanwandering
Urban Wandering<br />
– Film and the<br />
London Landscape<br />
Introduction<br />
The landscape of London has provided<br />
inspiration to filmmakers from the earliest days<br />
of cinema, and in this special autumn season we<br />
explore the city on film, with a particular focus<br />
on the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s neighbouring boroughs in the<br />
East End.<br />
The tradition of ‘urban wandering’ – to<br />
experience a heightened awareness of the<br />
city environment – stretches back to writers<br />
such as William Blake, Daniel Defoe and<br />
Thomas De Quincey. In recent years, this<br />
notion and many of its themes and debates<br />
have been encapsulated in the concept of<br />
‘psycho-geography’ and the work of writers<br />
such as Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein,<br />
Will Self and Peter Ackroyd, and filmmakers<br />
including Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit, Emily<br />
Richardson and William Raban.<br />
For the first time, we bring together these ideas,<br />
and related writers, filmmakers and artists, for<br />
a major season. Urban Wandering explores<br />
familiar landmarks of London life – the pub and<br />
the cafe, the river, markets, architecture and the<br />
secret city underneath the ground. Films, walks<br />
and talks look at the changes in the city brought<br />
about by bombing and the Blitz, by migration<br />
and changes in community. A special screening,<br />
Barbitopia, celebrates the utopian vision of the<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> itself and we welcome Mike Leigh,<br />
Stephen Poliakoff and a host of other<br />
filmmakers and writers to discuss their work.<br />
Finally, we host a gala event in Leytonstone<br />
with our partners Create London, exploring the<br />
East London of the UK’s legendary film director<br />
Alfred Hitchcock with a screening of his 1958<br />
masterpiece, Vertigo.<br />
Robert Rider<br />
Head of Cinema<br />
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Fri 20 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
Estate U*<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Will Self, Lynsey<br />
Hanley and Andrea Luka Zimmerman<br />
A whistle-stop tour through five decades of<br />
social housing provision in the capital. Ernö<br />
Goldfinger is interviewed from the 26 th floor<br />
of Balfron Tower in East London; New Brutalist<br />
architects Alison and Peter Smithson defend<br />
their plans for Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar;<br />
and construction firm Laing & Son defend their<br />
cottage estates.<br />
After the screening, join our speakers as they<br />
debate the key issues of social housing policy<br />
today. In the years since these films were made,<br />
the estates featured have experienced mixed<br />
fortunes: Robin Hood Gardens, for instance,<br />
has been demolished – with the support of 80%<br />
of its residents, but to the outrage of leading<br />
architects Lords Rogers and Foster. With the<br />
death of Margaret Thatcher, commentators<br />
have assessed the outcomes of her ‘right to buy’<br />
policy; during this same period, the coalition’s<br />
‘bedroom tax’ has come into force.<br />
Film <strong>programme</strong> running time 67 min<br />
It Always Rains on Sunday © Ealing Studios<br />
Events<br />
Wed 18 Sep 7pm, Cinema 1<br />
It Always Rains on Sunday PG<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Iain Sinclair<br />
Writer Iain Sinclair selects one of the key films<br />
made about East End life after the Second<br />
World War. The film tells the story of an escaped<br />
criminal who returns to Bethnal Green to seek<br />
refuge with his former girlfriend, who is now<br />
married. Postwar rationing, racketeering and<br />
domestic tension provide a background for<br />
this gritty film noir realist drama, one of Ealing<br />
Studios finest achievements.<br />
UK 1947 Dir Robert Hamer 92 min<br />
Thu 19 Sep 6pm, Cinema 3<br />
Bronco Bullfrog 15<br />
+ Introduction by Barney Platts-Mills<br />
A tale of teenage love and alienation, played<br />
out among the cafes, bombsites and new<br />
brutalist high-rise flats of Stratford. The film<br />
grew out of a project run by veteran theatre<br />
director Joan Littlewood at the Theatre Royal,<br />
Stratford East, and was made on a shoestring<br />
with a cast of non-professionals. Outstanding<br />
performances by Del Walker and Anne<br />
Gooding offer fresh, vivid characters.<br />
UK 1970 Dir Barney Platts-Mills 99 min<br />
Thu 19 Sep 8pm, Cinema 3<br />
Surveillance PG*<br />
+ Introduction by Chris Petit<br />
Chris Petit has been surveying the city in<br />
his films and writing since the 1980s and this<br />
evening’s <strong>programme</strong> showcases some of<br />
his work. Created for the BBC Late Show,<br />
Surveillance is a ten-minute found-footage<br />
opera, partly inspired by Chris Marker’s La<br />
Jetée. The film’s vocal commentary explains the<br />
similarity between surveillance tapes and the<br />
silent movies of the Lumière brothers.<br />
UK 1993 10 min<br />
+ London Labyrinth<br />
An impressionistic, personal view of London,<br />
presented through the use of archive film.<br />
UK 1993 39 min<br />
+ Unrequited Love<br />
Chris Petit’s meditation on cities and history is<br />
both a film-essay on cinema (Hitchcock and<br />
Antonioni) and a story of stalking and being<br />
stalked, of waiting, the fear of violence and<br />
of modern technology. Based on the novel by<br />
Greg Dart.<br />
UK 2006 77 min<br />
Fri 20 Sep 8.45pm, Cinema 3<br />
A Clockwork Orange 18<br />
When Stanley Kubrick wanted a setting for<br />
Anthony Burgess’ tale of alienation and<br />
ultra-violence, he knew just where to go. In<br />
1971, architects had just finished work on the<br />
location that would best express the horrifying,<br />
anti-human dystopia inhabited by Alex and his<br />
droogs: the Thamesmead estate.<br />
UK 1971 Dir Stanley Kubrick 136 min<br />
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Bronco Bullfrog © Maya Film Productions<br />
A Clockwork Orange © Warner Bros/Park Circus<br />
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Sun 22 Sep 5pm, Cinema 3<br />
The London Nobody Knows U<br />
Finisterre © BFI<br />
Sat 21 Sep 1.45pm, Cinema 3<br />
Finisterre 12<br />
A hymn to London that takes us on a journey<br />
from the suburbs to the heart of the city, with<br />
a beguiling score featuring the melancholy<br />
pop of St. Etienne. London has long<br />
been a source of influence, stimulation<br />
and curiosity for the band and the film is a<br />
poignant ‘psycho-geographical’ drama that<br />
celebrates the capital’s seediness and glory.<br />
UK 2003 Dir Paul Kelly and Kieran Evans 60 min<br />
+ Twilight City<br />
This Black Audio Film Collective film<br />
maps London through an excavation of<br />
Docklands, the City, Limehouse and the Isle<br />
of Dogs. Moving between archival image,<br />
studio interview, photographic tableau and<br />
travelling long shots, London is re-imagined<br />
as a night time city of light and glass,<br />
bordered by a landscape of dreams.<br />
UK 1989 Dir Reece Auguiste 52 min<br />
Sat 21 Sep 6pm, Cinema 3<br />
The River: A selection of shorts<br />
by William Raban<br />
+ Introduction by William Raban<br />
Thames Film PG*<br />
Raban’s reflective, ambivalent approach to<br />
cinematic Modernism reaches its apogee in this<br />
film. Narrated by John Hurt, it is the closest<br />
Raban comes to a conventional documentary,<br />
incorporating archive film from 1921-1951,<br />
panoramic photographs taken in 1937.<br />
UK 1986 Dir William Raban 66 min<br />
+ Beating the Bridges PG*<br />
From the wealthy surburbs of west London,<br />
the Thames flows past the familiar landmarks<br />
at Chelsea, Westminster and the City, to the<br />
industrial flatlands beyond Dartford Bridge.<br />
The 30 bridges spanning the river provide a<br />
range of acoustic space that is featured on<br />
the soundtrack by ambient reverb and a live<br />
percussion score.<br />
UK 1998 Dir William Raban 11 min<br />
Underground © BFI<br />
Sat 21 Sep 7.30pm, Cinema 3<br />
Naked 18<br />
+ Screentalk with Mike Leigh<br />
Mike Leigh’s London is as distinctive as<br />
Federico Fellini’s Rome or Yasujiro Ozu’s<br />
Tokyo, and his regular use of its streets,<br />
shops, office blocks and markets are<br />
testament to his love of the city. In Naked,<br />
Leigh's unflinching depiction of a young<br />
homeless man’s odyssey through the capital<br />
is crowned by a chilling and exhilarating<br />
performance by David Thewlis.<br />
UK 1993 Dir Mike Leigh 126 min<br />
Sun 22 Sept 3pm, Cinema 3<br />
Underground PG<br />
+ Introduction by Neil Brand<br />
We explore the secret, hidden London<br />
beneath our feet with Anthony Asquith’s<br />
1928 silent gem. This tale of jealousy, love and<br />
murder culminates in a thrilling chase on the<br />
tube lines, with a soundtrack featuring Neil<br />
Brand’s scintillating jazz score performed by<br />
the BBC Symphony Orchestra.<br />
UK 1928 Dir Anthony Asquith 84 min<br />
A rare screening of a precious documentary,<br />
which reveals the underside of London in<br />
1967. James Mason guides us to covert<br />
parts of the city, showing us places that, at<br />
that time, had survived the bulldozer. Street<br />
markets, entertainers and the homeless<br />
are seen as we tour the Bedford Theatre<br />
in Camden Town, the men’s toilets at<br />
Holborn station and Chapel Market.<br />
UK 1967 Dir Norman Cohen 53 min<br />
+ Under Night Streets U<br />
Each night after the last tube train has departed,<br />
the ‘fluffers’ and other workers, go underground<br />
to clean and repair the tracks.<br />
UK 1958 Dir Ralph Keene 18 min<br />
+ Under Your Feet U<br />
Made by the Rank Organisation as part of their<br />
weekly Look at Life series, this 1962 short takes<br />
us under London and into the tunnels, cellars,<br />
vaults and hidden reservoirs that lie beneath<br />
our feet.<br />
UK 1962 Narrated by Tim Turner 9 min<br />
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The London Nobody Knows © Norcon<br />
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Sun 22 Sep 7pm, Cinema 3<br />
Hidden City 15<br />
Thu 26 Sep 8.30pm, Cinema 3<br />
The Stuart Hall Project #<br />
+ Introduction by Stephen Poliakoff<br />
In his debut feature film, Stephen Poliakoff<br />
creates a potent portrait of an unknown<br />
world beneath the streets of London. A writer<br />
(Charles Dance) becomes involved with a<br />
young woman (Cassie Stuart) who is obsessed<br />
with finding some mysterious images hidden<br />
within a 1940s Government information<br />
film. The locations are brilliantly chosen: an<br />
ancient part of the Underground system, a vast<br />
subterranean chamber under Oxford Street and<br />
the desolation of a huge landfill site.<br />
UK 1988 Dir Stephen Poliakoff 108 min<br />
+ ScreenTalk with John Akomfrah<br />
This latest film-essay blends archival footage,<br />
home movies, television appearances and the<br />
music of Miles Davis. Black Audio Film Collective<br />
founder John Akomfrah creates a lyrical<br />
and emotionally powerful portrait of the life<br />
and philosophy of one of the UK’s leading<br />
intellectuals, Stuart Hall, while exploring issues<br />
of identity, immigration and assimilation.<br />
UK 2013 Dir John Akomfrah 95 min<br />
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Hidden City<br />
Mon 23 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 1<br />
Barbitopia PG*<br />
+ Introduction by David Heathcote<br />
and Elain Harwood<br />
Built out of the bomb craters following the<br />
Blitz, the story of the <strong>Barbican</strong> is told through<br />
this enthralling <strong>programme</strong> of rare archive<br />
documentaries. Titles include <strong>Barbican</strong> Regained<br />
(1963), Look at Life: Top People (1960), <strong>Barbican</strong><br />
(1969) and South of Watford (1988).<br />
Film <strong>programme</strong> running time approx 90 min<br />
Mon 23 Sep 8.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
Ian Nairn –<br />
The Poet of Subtopia U*<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Elain Harwood,<br />
Owen Hatherley and Travis Elborough<br />
A celebration of pioneering architecture<br />
critic and topographer, Ian Nairn, with<br />
screenings of his rare documentary on Pimlico<br />
(The Pacemakers, 1973) and episodes of<br />
the BBC series Nairn’s Travels (1970). After<br />
the screenings, we host a discussion with<br />
English Heritage’s Elain Harwood and<br />
writers Owen Hatherley (New Ruins of<br />
Great Britain) and Travis Elborough.<br />
Curated by Bob Stanley of St. Etienne<br />
Tue 24 Sep 7pm, Cinema 1<br />
John Smith’s London PG*<br />
+ ScreenTalk with John Smith<br />
A portrait of London through the eyes of<br />
artist, filmmaker and avant-garde hero<br />
John Smith, compiling four of his short<br />
films that use the capital as subject, material<br />
and ally: Hackney Marshes – November 4th<br />
1977 (1977), The Black Tower (1985–7), Blight<br />
(1994–6) and Lost Sound (1998–2001).<br />
Film <strong>programme</strong> running time 81 min<br />
Part of Architecture on Film<br />
Curated by The Architecture Foundation,<br />
in partnership with LUX<br />
Wed 25 Sep 6.30pm, Cinema 3<br />
I Hired a Contract Killer 15<br />
Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Ealing comedy on<br />
downers’ follows a discarded civil servant<br />
who, having unexpectedly fallen in love, seeks<br />
refuge from the hit man he no longer requires.<br />
Shunning ‘landmark London’, Kaurismäki<br />
opts for off-beat East End locations, many<br />
apparently suggested by his friend, British expunk<br />
Nicky Tesco of The Members who, along<br />
with Joe Strummer, has a cameo in the film.<br />
Fin/Swe 1990 Dir Aki Kaurismäki 74 min<br />
The Stuart Hall Project © BFI<br />
Wed 25 Sep 8pm, Cinema 3<br />
Nighthawks 15<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Ron Peck<br />
and Paul Hallam<br />
Director Ron Peck’s first feature is an unsung<br />
gem of indie British cinema and a fascinating<br />
document of life in late-1970s London.<br />
Nighthawks chronicles the double life of a<br />
vulnerable and semi-closeted teacher at an East<br />
End school, who spends his nights cruising gay<br />
bars and clubs. Produced at Four Corners studio<br />
in Bethnal Green, which continues to support<br />
filmmakers from disadvantaged communities.<br />
UK 1978 Dir Ron Peck 109 min<br />
Thu 26 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
World City: Insights on<br />
Migration in London PG*<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Marc Isaacs and Kyoko<br />
Miyake, chaired by Sukhdev Sandhu<br />
From the casual racism of the1920s and<br />
displaced migrant communities in the East<br />
End, to the multilingual lullabies now heard in<br />
Hackney, this <strong>programme</strong> gives faces and voices<br />
to the City's endlessly diverse neighbourhoods.<br />
Including Cosmopolitan London (1924), The<br />
Vanishing Street (1962), Sampling London (1994),<br />
Lift (2001), and Hackney Lullabies (2011).<br />
Programme running time 71 min<br />
In association with Moving Worlds<br />
at Counterpoints Arts<br />
Fri 27 Sep 6.30pm, Cinema 3<br />
The Pedway:<br />
Elevating London U*<br />
UK Premiere + ScreenTalk<br />
with Chris Bevan Lee and<br />
Professor Michael Hebbert<br />
It was one of the most revolutionary architectural<br />
ideas of the post-war era – the Corporation<br />
of London’s plan in the 1950s to separate<br />
pedestrians from traffic by building a network<br />
of elevated walkways through the City.<br />
Exploring the unsuccessful ‘Pedway’ scheme,<br />
the film captures the abandoned remains that,<br />
unknown to the public, still haunt the Square<br />
Mile. Preceded by a selection of short films<br />
and followed by a selection of shorts and<br />
ScreenTalk with director Chris Bevan Lee<br />
and contributor to the film Prof Michael<br />
Hebbert (Professor of Town Planning, UCL).<br />
UK 2013 Dir Chris Bevan Lee 40 min<br />
The Pedway: Elevating London © Chris Bevan Lee<br />
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Fri 27 Sep 7pm, Camera Cafe & Bar<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Film Quiz –<br />
The London Edition<br />
Can you tell your Love Actually from your Long<br />
Good Friday? Test your knowledge at our film<br />
quiz devoted to wandering this fair city. Followed<br />
by a screening of the cult classic An American<br />
Werewolf in London.<br />
Visit barbican.org.uk/film for team<br />
registration details.<br />
Fri 27 Sep 9pm, Cinema 2<br />
An American Werewolf<br />
in London 18<br />
Join us for a priceless slice of 1980s nostalgia<br />
with pioneering visual effects and a climactic<br />
chase through Piccadilly Circus.<br />
US/UK 1981 Dir John Landis 97 min<br />
Sat 28 Sep 2pm, Cinema 3<br />
Swandown 12A<br />
Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain<br />
Sinclair board a swan pedalo in Hastings and<br />
pedal it 160 miles to Hackney, via the rivers of<br />
Kent and the Thames, ending up at the site of<br />
the Olympic Games.<br />
UK 2012 Dir Andrew Kötting 98 min<br />
Sat 28 Sept 4pm, Cinema 3<br />
As Seen in the Archives #<br />
A rare opportunity to see London through the<br />
lenses of local residents. Over the decades,<br />
Londoners across the city have captured<br />
stunning images of daily London life, often with<br />
striking skill. This <strong>programme</strong> brings together a<br />
selection of these nostalgic and fascinating films<br />
alongside quirky public information titles that<br />
include market shopping in Greenwich, how<br />
to be happy in Brent and blooming Hackney.<br />
Programme presented in partnership with London’s<br />
Screen Archives, supported by Film London.<br />
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Swandown © Anonymous Bosch<br />
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Sun 29 Sep 6pm, Cinema 3<br />
Free Cinema and<br />
Beyond 1: Coffee and Quiffs U*<br />
Sat 28 Sep 7pm, St Margaret’s Church,<br />
Leytonstone, E11 3NG<br />
Hitchcock’s East End: Vertigo PG<br />
+ Introduction and walk<br />
A unique opportunity to see Hitchcock’s<br />
masterpiece Vertigo in the magnificent<br />
Victorian surroundings of St Margaret’s Church,<br />
Leytonstone. Each ticket includes a guided walk<br />
that takes in Hitchcock’s birthplace and the<br />
streets where he grew up, starting at Leytonstone<br />
Underground station from 5pm.<br />
US 1958 Dir Alfred Hitchcock 123 min<br />
Hitchcock’s East End is commissioned with Create<br />
London, presented with the <strong>Barbican</strong> cinema<br />
department and delivered with Nomad Cinema.<br />
Commissioned by Hill Residential,<br />
M & N Place and Waltham Forest Council.<br />
Breezy portraits of working-class life in the<br />
capital: the Free Cinema documentaries<br />
are some of the most warm and enjoyable<br />
films about London life. This <strong>programme</strong><br />
brings together three films loosely united<br />
around the idea of ‘youth culture’: Momma<br />
Don’t Allow (1956) drops in on a Wood<br />
Green jazz evening, We Are the Lambeth<br />
Boys (1959) mingles at a youth club in Oval<br />
and Nice Time (1957) captures a Saturday<br />
night out on the town at Piccadilly.<br />
Programme running time 91 min<br />
Sun 29 Sep 2pm, Cinema 3<br />
The Happy Family U<br />
The Blitz and post-war reconstruction reshaped<br />
the London landscape. This delightful comedy<br />
from Muriel Box tells the story of Mr and<br />
Mrs Lord, who refuse to move out of their<br />
corner shop on the South Bank, to make<br />
way for the building of the Festival Hall.<br />
Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison<br />
and George Cole star as the underdogs<br />
resisting police, bailiffs and attempts by<br />
government ministers to demolish their home.<br />
UK 1952 Dir Muriel Box 86 min<br />
Sun 29 Sep 4pm, Cinema 3<br />
The Sandwich Man U<br />
Capturing the cars, fashions, architecture<br />
and London streets of the mid-1960s, The<br />
Sandwich Man stars Michael Bentine as a<br />
professional ‘urban wanderer’, walking the city<br />
streets with his sandwich board to advertise<br />
the suits and overcoats of a local tailor. Laden<br />
with slapstick, comedy skits and stars of the<br />
era including Harry H Corbett, Bernard<br />
Cribbins, Diana Dors, Stanley Holloway<br />
Norman Wisdom and Suzy Kendall.<br />
UK 1966 Dir Robert Hartford-Davis 91 min<br />
We Are the Lambeth Boys © Graphic Films<br />
Sun 29 Sep 8.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
Free Cinema and Beyond 2:<br />
The East End U*<br />
Set around the bombsites, narrow streets,<br />
riversides, warehouses, markets and pubs<br />
of the East End, Lorenza Mazzetti’s<br />
experimental, semi-documentary film<br />
Together (1956) follows the story of two East<br />
End dockers and forms the centerpiece of<br />
this collection of short films. Includes Bow<br />
Bells (1954) and Portrait of Queenie (1964),<br />
a documentary profile of blues singer and<br />
landlady Queenie Watts in her East End pub.<br />
Programme running time 112 min<br />
East One © Phil Maxwell<br />
Mon 30 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
East One 12<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Hazuan Hashim,<br />
Phil Maxwell and Alan Gilbey<br />
East London filmmakers Hazuan Hashim<br />
and Phil Maxwell have brilliantly captured<br />
the area in photography and moving image<br />
for years, and their latest work traces the major<br />
changes that have occurred in Spitalfields and<br />
Banglatown. Candidly looking at immigration,<br />
regeneration, living conditions and culture<br />
through the eyes of local residents, they make<br />
extensive use of Maxwell’s vast photo archive.<br />
UK 2013 Dir Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell<br />
70 min<br />
Mon 30 Sep 8.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
London –<br />
The Modern Babylon 15<br />
+ Introduction by Julien Temple<br />
From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous<br />
thinkers, political radicals and above all<br />
ordinary people, Julien Temple’s film is the<br />
story of London’s immigrants and bohemians,<br />
and how together they changed the city forever.<br />
The story unfolds through archive footage<br />
and the voices of Londoners past and present,<br />
powered by popular music of the times.<br />
UK 2012 Dir Julien Temple 128 min<br />
Tue 1 Oct 6.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
Going Underground<br />
with Karen Russo<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Karen Russo and<br />
independent curator Tom Morton<br />
An evening of film with Karen Russo<br />
complementing her installation Mole Man in<br />
the cinema foyer (see page 17). For Economy of<br />
Excess (2005), Russo used a small robot camera,<br />
conventionally used to locate blockages, to<br />
explore the subterranean parallel universe<br />
of an Essex sewer system. Her latest film,<br />
Externsteine (2012), explores the relationship of<br />
various cults – from neo-Pagans, New Agers<br />
and neo-Nazis – to the mysterious Externsteine<br />
rock formations in northern Germany.<br />
UK 2005/2009/2012 Dir Karen Russo 70 min<br />
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Mole Man © 2008, Karen Russo<br />
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Tue 1 Oct 8pm, Cinema 3<br />
Faceless<br />
+ Emily Richardson shorts 12A<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Manu Luksch<br />
and Emily Richardson<br />
Manu Luksch’s sci-fi film Faceless uses images<br />
from CCTV video-surveillance systems in<br />
London, obtained by Freedom of Information<br />
requests. In this daring work, she moulds a<br />
familiar London into an eerie and oppressive<br />
place, where everyone is faceless. One morning,<br />
a woman finds she has a face and attempts to<br />
rediscover its lost power and history.<br />
UK 2008 Dir Manu Luksch 50 min<br />
+ Memo Mori<br />
A journey through Hackney tracing loss and<br />
disappearance, with commentary and readings<br />
from Hackney, That Red Rose Empire by Iain<br />
Sinclair.<br />
UK 2009 Dir Emily Richardson 23 min<br />
+ Block<br />
Block looks at the incidental activity that takes<br />
places inside and outside a tower block in South<br />
London over the period of several months.<br />
UK 2005 Dir Emily Richardson 11 min<br />
+ Nocturne<br />
Shot in deserted streets around the East End of<br />
London and Docklands.<br />
UK 2002 Dir Emily Richardson 5 min<br />
Wed 2 Oct 6.15pm, Cinema 3<br />
Kiss the Sky –<br />
Explore Everything:<br />
Talk with Bradley L. Garrett<br />
and Will Self<br />
We welcome Bradley L. Garrett to discuss his<br />
new book Explore Everything with author Will<br />
Self. Garrett, a researcher at Oxford University,<br />
is the daredevil place-hacker who rose to<br />
fame after he climbed the Shard. Influenced<br />
by psycho-geography and other urban theory,<br />
his group, the London Consolidation Crew,<br />
has explored buildings, sewers and bridges in<br />
London and beyond.<br />
Presented in association with Verso Publishing<br />
Wed 2 Oct 8pm, Cinema 3<br />
London U<br />
+ ScreenTalk with Patrick Keiller<br />
Patrick Keiller’s seminal film chronicles a<br />
year in the life of the capital through the eyes<br />
of imaginary protagonist Robinson, and an<br />
unseen narrator, voiced by Paul Scofield. As<br />
Robinson wanders the city, quoting French poets<br />
such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, he looks for<br />
comforting public spaces, but finds them only<br />
in the suburbs of Wembley and the arcades of<br />
Brixton Market.<br />
UK 1994 Dir Patrick Keiller 85 min<br />
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Nocturne © Emily Richardson<br />
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Let us take you<br />
on a journey…<br />
Sun 22 and 29 Sep<br />
<strong>Barbican</strong> Conservatory<br />
The Sounds of London<br />
Enjoy an aural installation with work by Chris<br />
Petit and Iain Sinclair whilst walking amongst<br />
the plants, trees, finches and exotic fish of the<br />
second largest conservatory in London.<br />
Free admission<br />
18 Sep–2 Oct, <strong>Barbican</strong> Estate<br />
Architecture Tours<br />
Explore the architecture of the <strong>Barbican</strong> via the<br />
highwalks and discover the origins of its designs.<br />
Check online for details.<br />
18 Sep–2 Oct, Cinemas 2 & 3 Foyer<br />
Karen Russo: Mole Man<br />
Mole Man, 2008, by London-based Israeli<br />
artist Karen Russo is a fascinating photographic<br />
record stemming from her research into<br />
the psycho-geography of underground<br />
environments in London. It comprises a series<br />
of photographs and text in response to her<br />
investigation into the compulsion of 77 yearold<br />
William Lyttle, a Hackney resident fined<br />
£100,000 for digging functionless tunnels under<br />
his house for over 40 years, and who, until his<br />
death, defended his right to dig.<br />
Walks and talks<br />
with our partners<br />
Take a fresh look at London streets and join<br />
one of the many guided tours with our partner<br />
organisations happening in the local area.<br />
City Garden Walks<br />
Take a tour of the ancient burial grounds in<br />
Bunhill Fields<br />
citygardenwalks.com<br />
Museum of London walks<br />
From ancient ruins to modern day facades<br />
London is a city of many stories. Join experts<br />
from the Museum of London as they lead a<br />
variety of special walks around the capital. All<br />
tickets must be booked in advance on 020 7001<br />
9844 or at museumoflondon.org.uk/walks<br />
Diamond Street App<br />
A free GPS-activated rich media digital app<br />
for smartphones and tablets. Go on a journey<br />
through the historic jewellery quarter of Hatton<br />
Garden and the stories in Rachel’s Lichtenstein’s<br />
recent book Diamond Street: The Hidden World<br />
of Hatton Garden. Guided by Rachel, along<br />
with a host of other characters, the secrets of<br />
the streets around the Hatton Garden area will<br />
be revealed to users as they wander around the<br />
area, listening and exploring.<br />
rachellichenstein.com<br />
Calendar<br />
Time Event Venue Page<br />
Wed 18 Sep<br />
7pm It Always Rains on Sunday Cinema 1 3<br />
Thu 19 Sep<br />
6pm Bronco Bullfrog Cinema 3 3<br />
8pm Surveillance Cinema 3 3<br />
Fri 20 Sep<br />
6.15pm Estate Cinema 3 4<br />
8.45pm A Clockwork Orange Cinema 3 4<br />
Sat 21 Sep<br />
1.45pm Finisterre Cinema 3 5<br />
6pm The River: A selection of shorts Cinema 3 5<br />
7.30pm Naked Cinema 3 6<br />
Sun 22 Sep<br />
3pm Underground Cinema 3 6<br />
5pm The London Nobody Knows Cinema 3 6<br />
7pm Hidden City Cinema 3 7<br />
Mon 23 Sep<br />
6.15pm Barbitopia Cinema 1 7<br />
8.15pm Ian Nairn – The Poet of Subtopia Cinema 3 7<br />
Tue 24 Sep<br />
7pm John Smith’s London Cinema 1 7<br />
Wed 25 Sep<br />
6.30pm I Hired a Contract Killer Cinema 3 7<br />
8pm Nighthawks Cinema 3 8<br />
Thu 26 Sep<br />
6.15pm World City: Insights on Migration in London Cinema 3 8<br />
8.30pm The Stuart Hall Project Cinema 3 8<br />
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18 Sep–2 Oct, 7pm daily<br />
Camera Cafe & Bar, Beech Street<br />
London Orbital #<br />
Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair's poignant visual<br />
poem follows the M25 as it circles London.<br />
UK 2002 76 min<br />
14–28 Sep, Cinema 2<br />
Framed Film Club<br />
Saturday morning London themed film<br />
screenings for children. Check online for<br />
full details.<br />
Sat 21 Sep 3.45pm, Cinema 2<br />
Attack the Block<br />
Framed Focus<br />
A group of teenagers defend their London<br />
estate from an alien invasion.<br />
UK 2011 Dir Joe Cornish 84 min<br />
All photographs commissioned by the <strong>Barbican</strong> for the Urban Wandering season.<br />
© Josh Lustig<br />
With thanks to<br />
British Film Institute<br />
BFI Screen Online<br />
Museum of London<br />
London Film School<br />
Film London<br />
Four Corners<br />
East End Film Festival<br />
Lux<br />
Birkbeck College<br />
Shanida Scotland (BBC Storyville)<br />
London Metropolitan Archives<br />
Gareth Evans<br />
London Screen Archives<br />
* Locally classified<br />
# Certificate to be confirmed<br />
Fri 27 Sep<br />
6.30pm The Pedway: Elevating London Cinema 3 8<br />
7pm <strong>Barbican</strong> Film Quiz – The London Edition Camera Cafe & Bar 11<br />
9pm An American Werewolf in London Cinema 2 11<br />
Sat 28 Sep<br />
2pm Swandown Cinema 3 11<br />
4pm As Seen in the Archives Cinema 3 11<br />
7pm Hitchcock’s East End: Vertigo St Margaret’s Church 13<br />
Sun 29 Sep<br />
2pm The Happy Family Cinema 3 13<br />
4pm The Sandwich Man Cinema 3 13<br />
6pm Free Cinema and Beyond 1 Cinema 3 13<br />
8.15pm Free Cinema and Beyond 2 Cinema 3 13<br />
Mon 30 Sep<br />
6.15pm East One Cinema 3 14<br />
8.15pm London – The Modern Babylon Cinema 3 14<br />
Tue 1 Oct<br />
6.15pm Going Underground with Karen Russo Cinema 3 14<br />
8pm Faceless + Emily Richardson shorts Cinema 3 15<br />
Wed 2 Oct<br />
6.15pm Kiss the Sky – Explore Everything Cinema 3 15<br />
8pm London Cinema 3 15<br />
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