Tag: environment

• 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…