Film
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She Monkeys
18 May 2012 - 24 May 2012
Two teenagers compete against each other at any cost to make it into a local equestrian vaulting teams.
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Mitsuko Delivers
16 May 2012 - 30 May 2012
A woman in a difficult situation and a baby on the way travels to Tokyo to find a chance to build a new life.
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Two Years at Sea
16 May 2012 - 31 May 2012
A solitary man in Scotland uses photography as a way of observing the world from an extremely lonely perspective.
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LUX / ICA Biennial Launch Event: Little Stabs at Happiness
24 May 2012
A revival of Little Stabs at Happiness, the music and film club presented by Mark Webber at the ICA from 1997 to 2000.
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Questions of Travel curated by Shanay Jhaveri
25 May 2012 - 26 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Shanay Jhaveri followed by curator Q&A on Friday 25
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Subconscious Society, Curated by Rosa Barba
25 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Rosa Barba followed by curator Q&A on Friday 25.
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A Blurred Boundary is still a Boundary, curated by Shama Khanna
25 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Shama Khana followed by curator Q&A on Friday 25
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Nine Films by Luther Price curated by Thomas Beard & Ed Halter
25 May 2012 - 26 May 2012
A selection of works by Luther Price, programmed by guest curators Thomas Beard & Ed Halter, followed by curator Q&A
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Fetish and Figure curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Martha Kirszenbaum followed by curator Q&A on Saturday 26.
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Friends with Benefits curated by Ben Rivers
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Ben Rivers followed by curator Q&A on Sunday 27.
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We only dream of places and resistance, for now. Curated by Carmen Billows
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Carmen Billows followed by curator Q&A on Saturday 26
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On the Custom of Wearing Clothes curated by Michelle Cotton
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Michelle Cotton followed by curator Q&A on Saturday 26.
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This Obscure Object of Desire or, “No ideas except in things” curated by Elena Filipovic
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
A selection of works programmed by guest curator Elena Filipovic followed by curator Q&A on Sunday 27.
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Inner Cinema: Films by Eric Duvivier curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012
Films by Eric Duvivier curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman followed by curator Q&A on Saturday 26
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Methodology for a Phosphorescent Screen
26 May 2012
A late-night drop-in screening programme selected and edited specifically for a phosphorescent screen, featuring Ed Atkins, Gareth Bell-Jones, Gil Leung, James Richards.
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Faust
29 May 2012 - 31 May 2012
The conclusion to Sokurov’s four-part treatise on the nature of power, Faust is a dense but fascinating cinematic experience, to which one must simply surrender.
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Poltergeist
29 May 2012 - 31 May 2012
Tobe Hooper’s classic features an increasingly desperate middle-America couple whose young, angelic daughter starts to communicate with the ‘other’ world through their television set.
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Artists' Film Club: Films by Nancy Holt + Q&A
30 May 2012
A screening of Nancy Holt’s works followed by a Q&A led by ICA Associate Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, Steven Cairns.
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I Am Dora, by Jemma Desai - Launch Screening
31 May 2012
I Am Dora is an artists' publication focusing on how female characters in film effect womens perceptions of themselves. Special screenings to accompany the launch are Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity, and Light Reading.
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Himizu
1 June 2012 - 14 June 2012
Set in the immediate aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster, Shion Sono's Himizu tells the story of adolescent Sumida and besotted classmate Keiko, oscillating between violence, melodrama, romance and comedy.
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Moonrise Kingdom
1 June 2012 - 7 June 2012
The latest film from indie director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited) tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.
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Artists' Film Club: Jarman's Jubilee
6 June 2012
Derek Jarman’s Jubilee, 1977, is a dystopian tale of time-travel
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Arirang
8 June 2012 - 14 June 2012
The near-death of an actress on-set led Kim Ki-Duk into self-imposed exile, and into dialogue with himself in a remote cabin - to become both subject and author, as well as his own audience. A fascinating study in filmmaking itself.
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
8 June 2012 - 21 June 2012
Robert Weide’s surprisingly candid dialogue with Woody Allen, his family and collaborators coalesces in an endearing reflection on the prestigious career of the much-loved, and notoriously reclusive cinematic icon.
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3 Iron
15 June 2012 - 17 June 2012
Tae-suk drifts around on his motorcycle looking for empty houses to stay in. He finds one and simply guards the house for a few days, fixing broken items, and even does the owner’s laundry. Before leaving, he puts everything back as it used to be.
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Kosmos
15 June 2012 - 24 June 2012
In award-winning Turkish director Reha Erdem’s enthralling latest film, which occupies a hinterland between narrative and experimental cinema, an animalistic, childlike itinerant stranger emerges from the wilderness and is hailed as a miracle-worker after he saves a young boy from drowning.
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Late September
15 June 2012 - 21 June 2012
Jon Sanders’ gently compassionate but never sentimental portrait of later-life relationships. During a 65th birthday celebration, a cluster of dormant, resentful sentiments bubbles to the surface; by turns delicately comic and quietly tragic.
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Student Forum: Terrestrial Futures
16 June 2012
Responding to the Remote Control exhibition, members of the ICA Student Forum curate a late night screening of short films and videos by a diverse group of artists and directors.
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Screening Conditions: Pan’s Labyrinth
17 June 2012
Set against a backdrop of fascist Spain, a young girl escapes into her own fantasy world which is both captivating and nightmarish.
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring
22 June 2012 - 26 June 2012
Set in a small floating house, this, one of Kim Ki-Duk most stunning, sublime films follows a Buddhist monk from childhood to old age. Each season represents a crucial state in the monk's life, as well as the cyclical nature of life.
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Double Indemnity
22 June 2012 - 27 June 2012
1940s film noir reached its apogee with Billy Wilder's tightly coiled story of insurance fraud and murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain and scripted in a famously difficult partnership with Raymond Chandler, it is an unflinching portrayal of greed, sex and duplicity.
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Planet of Snail
22 June 2012 - 28 June 2012
Documentarian Yi Seung-jun spent two years filming Young-Chan, deaf and blind since early childhood, and Soon-Ho, also physically hampered by a spinal disability. The pair telegraph their thoughts to one another using an intricate, voiceless lexicon of tapped fingers. More than just a humbling portrayal of disability, Planet of Snail is an absorbing, poetic, enlightening film about human experience.
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The Lost Weekend
23 June 2012 - 24 June 2012
Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning noir classic returns to screens with its gripping tale of alcoholism and existential angst. Don Birnam, a struggling, down-and-out writer embarks on a debauched five-day binge that takes him into a pit of despair and degeneracy.
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Dark Horse
29 June 2012 - 30 June 2012
Obese, toy-collecting man-child Abe becomes besotted with vulnerable, over-medicated Miranda after meeting her at a wedding; addled on anti-depressants, she agrees to marry him. Although uncharacteristically sunny in parts, Solondz delivers a scathing critique of the cosseted cohort of ‘Generation X’.
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King of Devil’s Island
29 June 2012 - 30 June 2012
Marius Holst’s film is a bleak but engaging account of true events at Bastoy Residential School, a borstal-esque institution on an island north of Oslo in1915, when the Norwegian army was forced to intervene in a teenage inmate-led insurrection on the island.
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Screening Conditions: Let the Right One In
1 July 2012
An isolated and bullied boy forms a friendship with a mysterious young girl whose appearance in town coincides with a horrifying series of murders.