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London Film Festival · 2018

London Film Festival 2018

Experimenta

In addition to the films below, there will also be a showcase of 13 archive Maria Lassnig films.

Programme

12 films · 1 review

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Another Decade

Montage of 1990s and current footage to examine a once-promised future.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Morgan Quaintance)

Showing with Twenty-Two Hours

Between Two Cinemas

Essayistic mediation on the relationship between experimental practice and independent arthouse cinema.

(Country: US, UK, Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Ross Lipman)

Cladach

Documentary portrait of life in a Scots coastal town.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Margaret Salmon)

Showing with Jatiwangi

Diamantino (Tristes Monroes)

Review preview for Diamantino

The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2017; Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Joana Barrios, Abílio Bejinha, Chico Chapas)

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Doozy

Experimental documentary recreates the career of actor Paul Lynde, who played a string of Hanna-Barbera villains.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ian Mark; Stars: Ian Mark, Lorn Conner, Cailyn McIntire, Ben Michaels, Amber Rivette, Ian Mark, Lorn Conner, Cailyn McIntire, Ben Michaels, Amber Rivette)

Showing with Jour De Fete

Jatiwangi

Portrait of the village arts community of Jatiwangi in West Java.

(Country: UK, Indonesia; Year: 2018; Director: George Clark)

Showing with Cladach

Jour De Fete

Tribute to Jacques Tati.

(Country: France, UK; Year: 2017; Director: John Smith)

Showing with Doozy

Look Closely At The Mountains (Olhe Bem As Montanhas)

Examination of the environmental impact human overexploitation.

(Country: France, Brazil; Year: 2018; Director: Ana Vaz)

Showing with The Sun Quartet

Make Me Up

Art drama about the role o women in society and how they have been depicted to mark the centenary of women's suffrage.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Rachel Maclean; Writer: Rachel Maclean; Stars: Rachel Maclean, Christina Gordon, Kirsty Strain, Alice Zhang, Jenny Douglas, Sanaa Zaheed)

Experimenta Gala

Second Time Around (Segunda Vez)

Cinema as a historical intervention.

(Country: Belgium, Norway; Year: 2018; Director: Dora García)

The Sun Quartet

Four films protesting the disappearance of students.

(Director: Colectivo Los Ingravidos)

Showing with Look Closely At The Mountains

Twenty-Two Hours

The poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the United States at the invitation of the Black Panther Party.

(Country: Germany, US, Norway, Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Bouchra Khalili)

Showing with Another Decade