T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
With Stephen Dillane - In collaboration with Katie Mitchell and Vicki Mortimer
X-Ray Audio Live
Join The Real Tuesday Weld's STEPHEN COATES and sound artist ALEKS KOLKOWSKI
Kitty Finer presents... (With Friends and Family)
"A Festive Night at The Horse Hospital"
RETROGARDE LONDON 2014
Presentation of IRWIN's new book State in Time with Jonah Westerman and Stevphen Shukaitis + more
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London
School of Shock: Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London
School of Shock: Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film
Portia Winters album launch
An evening to celebrate the release of portia's new album 'Epicotyl'
Stephen Dwoskin screening
To compliment the Stephen Dwoskin exhibition, we will be screening 3 of his films.
Granta 129: Fate launch event
Mark Gevisser & Andrea Stuart in conversation with Sigrid Rausing.
Remembering Dermot Healy (1947 – 2014): I Could Read the Sky – Screening, Readings and Discussion
7pm doors (7:15pm start)
£5 advance (click here) £6.50 on the door
A benefit event for the Horse Hospital Fundraising Campaign
A special event to remember the great Irish writer Dermot Healy, who died earlier this year. Healy, drawing on his own earlier years, took the lead role in this wonderful film, channelling the Irish emigrant experience into a moving document of universal resonance. We’re delighted that the film’s director and producer, Nichola Bruce and Janine Marmot respectively, will join us, alongside Healy’s obituarist Sean O’Hagan, the Guardian’s award-winning photography and feature writer. The evening will be hosted by Gareth Evans.
I Could Read the Sky (Nichola Bruce, 2000) 86 mins
Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke's photo-novel I Could Read the Sky juxtaposed words and images, landscape and interiority, memory and loss to evoke the Irish emigrant experience. This adaptation imposes sound and movement on the mix: the burr of Irish writer Healy's voice; an eclectic soundtrack that ebbs and flows around the images; gauzy layers and transitions of film textures and fragments. The narrator is an old Irish exile in a Kentish Town bed-sit, lying back and listening as the memories come crowding in. In no particular order, he revisits his childhood in the West of Ireland, his family diaspora, friends and pub society, romance, marriage and widower-hood. Hard toil is the one constant, be it in potato fields, abattoirs, construction sites or on the streets, sweeping and busking. At last he faces the moment of retirement, wracked but unbroken, clear-minded but still yearning. As testimony, the film is unimpeachable; in its modesty there's a fluid, fleeting grace. – Nick Bradshaw, from Time Out
“The Irish writer Dermot Healy, who has died aged 66, was once described by Seamus Heaney as ‘the heir to Patrick Kavanagh’. If Healy's poetry was steeped in the same rural tradition as Kavanagh's, his novels evoked a more fractured interior world, with characters who often seemed haunted or on the verge of psychological disintegration. Despite being lauded in Ireland, Healy remained a bafflingly under-appreciated writer elsewhere. He wrote five works of fiction, including A Goat's Song (1994), one of the great Irish novels of recent times, as well as several volumes of plays and poetry and an acclaimed memoir, The Bend for Home (1996). His fellow writer Pat McCabe described the latter book as "probably the finest memoir… written in Ireland in the last 50 years", while Roddy Doyle once called Healy "Ireland's finest living novelist".”
– Sean O’Hagan: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/30/dermot-healy
Remembering Dermot Healy (1947 – 2014): I Could Read the Sky – Screening, Readings and Discussion
7pm doors (7:15pm start)
£5 advance (click here) £6.50 on the door
A benefit event for the Horse Hospital Fundraising Campaign
A special event to remember the great Irish writer Dermot Healy, who died earlier this year. Healy, drawing on his own earlier years, took the lead role in this wonderful film, channelling the Irish emigrant experience into a moving document of universal resonance. We’re delighted that the film’s director and producer, Nichola Bruce and Janine Marmot respectively, will join us, alongside Healy’s obituarist Sean O’Hagan, the Guardian’s award-winning photography and feature writer. The evening will be hosted by Gareth Evans.
I Could Read the Sky (Nichola Bruce, 2000) 86 mins
Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke's photo-novel I Could Read the Sky juxtaposed words and images, landscape and interiority, memory and loss to evoke the Irish emigrant experience. This adaptation imposes sound and movement on the mix: the burr of Irish writer Healy's voice; an eclectic soundtrack that ebbs and flows around the images; gauzy layers and transitions of film textures and fragments. The narrator is an old Irish exile in a Kentish Town bed-sit, lying back and listening as the memories come crowding in. In no particular order, he revisits his childhood in the West of Ireland, his family diaspora, friends and pub society, romance, marriage and widower-hood. Hard toil is the one constant, be it in potato fields, abattoirs, construction sites or on the streets, sweeping and busking. At last he faces the moment of retirement, wracked but unbroken, clear-minded but still yearning. As testimony, the film is unimpeachable; in its modesty there's a fluid, fleeting grace. – Nick Bradshaw, from Time Out
“The Irish writer Dermot Healy, who has died aged 66, was once described by Seamus Heaney as ‘the heir to Patrick Kavanagh’. If Healy's poetry was steeped in the same rural tradition as Kavanagh's, his novels evoked a more fractured interior world, with characters who often seemed haunted or on the verge of psychological disintegration. Despite being lauded in Ireland, Healy remained a bafflingly under-appreciated writer elsewhere. He wrote five works of fiction, including A Goat's Song (1994), one of the great Irish novels of recent times, as well as several volumes of plays and poetry and an acclaimed memoir, The Bend for Home (1996). His fellow writer Pat McCabe described the latter book as "probably the finest memoir… written in Ireland in the last 50 years", while Roddy Doyle once called Healy "Ireland's finest living novelist".”
– Sean O’Hagan: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/30/dermot-healy
X-Ray Audio - Soviet Music 'on the Bone'
Cold War Culture, Bootleg Vinyl Technology and Human Endeavour 1946 - 1964
X-Ray Audio - Soviet Music 'on the Bone'
Cold War Culture, Bootleg Vinyl Technology and Human Endeavour 1946 - 1964
THE REAL TUESDAY WELD and FRIENDS
Join the band for a special one-off cinematic medley!
Feminists For Ferguson
An event meant to build solidarity globally; to support the work of youth mobilising in Ferguson.
Alan Clarke and David Rudkin’s Penda’s Fen: 40th Anniversary Screening on 16mm
Gareth Evans presents extremely rare screening!
‘A Glaring Mistake’: Stella Polare - an Alternative Armistice Evening
Gareth Evans presents the film introduced by the film-makers, and readings.
Ron Athey presents: xenolalia
An evening of sound arts including spoken word, percussion, vocals, glossalalia
Begotten With a live soundtrack by The Begotten
A film cultist's delight! The Begotten (William Fowler, Justin Harries, Mark Pilkington)
Begotten With a live soundtrack by The Begotten
A film cultist's delight! The Begotten (William Fowler, Justin Harries, Mark Pilkington)
Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
Peter Bebergal, Luke Turner & Mark Pilkington + Live music from The Stargazer's Assistant
LIAF 2014 Late Night Bizarre
This year’s collection of the weirdest films submitted to LIAF.