CLEANIN' UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING GHOSTBUSTERS + Q&A (14TH JAN)
Thirty-five years after its release, Ghostbusters continues to enchant fans around the world. Find out how an eccentric idea became movie magic in this definitive making-of documentary.
A collection of works contemplating the social impact of architectural transformation, led by Xiaolu Guo’s brave and intelligent film on the moral and human cost of creating a ‘New China’ in The Concrete Revolution.
See the landmark Handsworth Songs by the Black Audio Film Collective, a richly-layered inquiry into the hopes and dreams of post-war Black British people in the light of civil disturbances in the 1980s.
Chantal Akerman’s meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection is part of the UCL Urban Laboratory series City, Essay, Film.
City, Essay, Film is a series of events hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory to examine the concept and practice of the ‘urban essay film’. This opening screening showcases a number of exemplary urban shorts from across the globe.
In the High Himalayas of Nepal, children are sent from their remote villages to a Buddhist monk-led school in Kathmandu. After a decade of being away, a group of 16 year-olds are making their journey home, with the danger of earthquakes looming.
Before his voice had dropped, Flynn McGarry was wowing his fellow Californians with his fine dining creations, as his filmmaker mother helped him run a pop up restaurant from her home. Soon his huge talent catches the attention of the national press, turning the young chef into a national phenomenon.
An astonishing and absorbing insight into the rise of the Camorra AKA the Neapolitan mafia – a complex network of organised crime – as told by those involved, through a patchwork of incredible archive footage.
From a sculptor who makes art out of typewriter parts, to fanatic collector Tom Hanks, California Typewriter explores the joy of analogue in an overwhelming digital age.
An intimate portrait of those surviving in, and fighting for, Baltimore – where street violence has become an epidemic.
One of the most innovative sound designers of his time, Conny Plank pioneered ‘Kraut-rock’ and ‘neue deutsche welle’ from his sound studio near Cologne. Here, director Stephan Plank picks up the thread of his father’s legacy on a journey to rediscover Conny’s impact on music history.
Chavela Vargas revolutionised music in Mexico with her hypnotic raspy voice singing music traditionally reserved for men. This film tells the epic story of her fearless life, emotive music and passionate love affairs.
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's Caniba is the latest project from the innovative Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Complicit follows Chinese factory migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting as he takes on the global electronic industry in a bid to defend the lives of millions of Chinese people from becoming terminally ill due to working conditions.
Chavela Vargas revolutionised music in Mexico with her hypnotic raspy voice singing music traditionally reserved for men. This film tells the epic story of her fearless life, emotive music and passionate love affairs.
In this thrilling ocean adventure, Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice) is joined by a team of divers, photographers and scientists in his investigation into why coral reefs are vanishing at an unprecedented rate.
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is a timely look at the work of legendary writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs who fought against the mass urbanisation and destructive redevelopment of New York City.
Urban Lab Films present the award-winning Cities of Sleep, a documentary displaying the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in Delhi, where securing a safe sleeping spot can often become a question of life and death.
Migrant farmer Chen Jun moved his family from rural Hebei Province to Beijing, making a living by farming a leased plot of land. In 2010, the ruthless expansion of Beijing reached Chen Jun's threshold when his landlord demanded their plot back in order to build on the land.
After 20 years of media speculation and public hysteria, the unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains one of the world’s most sensational child murder cases. Casting JonBenet is a genre-defying exploration of the macabre and complicated legacy of this tiny starlet.
A moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.