Category: Feature
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In conjunction with their ongoing exhibition Lucy Raven: Rounds, an investigation into landscape shaped by industry and extraction, the Barbican screened a double bill of the filmmaker’s seldom circulated China Town (2009), and Jean Luc-Godard’s Opération béton (1955). Much like Raven’s latest film Murderers Bar (2025), receiving its UK premiere at the Barbican exhibition, China…
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In promoting her haunting and tender short film Before You, writer-director Lauren Melinda speaks about transforming deeply personal pain into a cinematic act of empathy. The short follows a couple in the wake of a distressing decision: ending a planned pregnancy. Told with intimacy and restraint, the film explores the often-invisible grief of pregnancy loss and…
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In his haunting new short film The Boy with White Skin (2024), French filmmaker Simon Panay continues his deep, almost anthropological exploration of Africa’s gold mining communities. The 15-minute film sees an albino boy entrusted to a group of gold miners by his father. The boy’s presence and voice in the mine are believed to…
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Land Cinema, Becca Voelker’s season curated in tandem with her upcoming book, is playing at Barbican until the end of November. Land Cinema ‘unearths an enduring green counter culture,’ screening everything from political documentaries to the experimental shorts of celebrated artist Ana Vaz. The programme attempts to capture the essence of “land cinema,” the title…
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This month, the Film London Jarman Award 2025 will show off the best of artists’ moving image from recent years. The programme is touring the UK, with London’s Whitechapel Gallery hosting the award ceremony later in November. This year’s shortlist includes films by Karimah Ashadu, Morgan Quaintance, Hope Strickland, Onyeka Igwe and others, all of…
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As London gets colder, the BFI launches London Film Festival, an 11-day blaze that warms Southbank with new cinema. Classed into their ever-enigmatic categories, there’s something for everyone, from Julia Ducournau to Sergei Loznitsa. Bookending these are Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero. But…
