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Seasons

Comica Family Matinees

26 July 2008 - 27 August 2008

A family-friendly, spectacular summer season of screenings: absolutely free for ICA Members and Westminster residents.

Nought to Sixty

Nought to Sixty

5 May -  2 November 2008

A programme of solo exhibitions and events by sixty emerging artists and collectives based in Britain and Ireland.

Seasons

Shoot Yr Idols

15 August 2008 - 31 August 2008

A small and very, very cool season of US art documentaries.

Visual Art

A Recent History of Writing and Drawing

9 Jul - 31 Aug 2008

An exhibition about the evolving relationship between communication technologies and their users. Meet Viktor, a giant wall-drawing machine, and make your own hole-punched posters.

Film

Mad Detective

18 - 31 Jul 2008

Lau Ching Wan offers an amazing performance as Bun, a schizophrenic police inspector solving crimes in his own unorthodox way.

Talks

Can International Tribunals Deliver Justice?

24 July 2008

As the International Criminal Court seeks the indictment of Sudan's president on war crimes charges, historians of international justice ask: whose interests do international tribunals act in, and are their actions always distinguishable from revenge?

Film

Two films by Aaron Katz: Quiet City + Dance Party, USA

25 Jul - 7 , 9 Aug 2008

Mumblecore is here! A pair of carefully observed, tenderly realised low-budget short features from a brilliant new American film-maker.

Film

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

25 Jul - 14 Aug 2008

The youngest Makhmalbaf presents her first feature, about a young girl's quest for education in central Afghanistan.

Talks

Great British Graphic Novels

2 August 2008

An absolute treat. British graphic novelists Raymond Briggs and Bryan Talbot discuss their pioneering work, books spanning more than three decades.

Film

Archive Screening: Mon-rak Transistor

16 August 2008

Quirky, cheeky, witty Thai musical.

Film

CinematICA Special Preview: Somers Town + This is England

17 August 2008

Shane Medows returns with This is England's Thomas Turgoose as a young runaway forming a remarkable new friendship in London.

Talks

Blackwater: The new mercenaries

20 August 2008

US journalist Jeremy Scahill talks about the political economy of warfare and the effect of 'private security contractors' in Iraq and beyond.

Film

Albert Lamorisse Double Bill: The Red Balloon + White Mane

23 - 25 Aug 2008

Two magical family classics from French director Albert Lamorisse that will enchant children and provoke nostalgia in parents.

Film

Sakuran

29 - 31 Aug 2008

A visual treat with a wonderfully oddball score of jazz, electro and Japanese pop.

Film

Triangle

29 - 31 Aug 2008

A unique Hong Kong crime film that combines three of the industry's top directors on an exciting 'tag team' project.

Music

Dengue Fever + Special Guests

20 November 2008

LA psychedelia meets Cambodian pop: genre-mashing global sounds for the cool kids.

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