Tag: Barbican

• Manipulating Material In The Cinema Of Dam-Building

  Darla Timewell

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  5th January 2026

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  Feature

  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…

  

• Becca Voelker Sows Seeds Of Change With ‘Land Cinema’

  Oisín McGilloway

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  12th November 2025

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  Feature

  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…