Tag: Barbican
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Last weekend, Barbican screened four shorts as part of their Project a Black Planet season, which all use memory and myth. But how does eternalising and internalising the past help reimagine cultural identities today? “You cannot step in the same river twice,” Heraclitus reportedly said of our experience in the world. The past is gone;…
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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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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…
