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A major cinema season
exploring the London
landscape on film
18 Sep–2 Oct 2013
barbican.org.uk/
urbanwandering

Urban Wandering
– Film and the
London Landscape
Introduction
The landscape of London has provided
inspiration to filmmakers from the earliest days
of cinema, and in this special autumn season we
explore the city on film, with a particular focus
on the Barbican’s neighbouring boroughs in the
East End.
The tradition of ‘urban wandering’ – to
experience a heightened awareness of the
city environment – stretches back to writers
such as William Blake, Daniel Defoe and
Thomas De Quincey. In recent years, this
notion and many of its themes and debates
have been encapsulated in the concept of
‘psycho-geography’ and the work of writers
such as Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein,
Will Self and Peter Ackroyd, and filmmakers
including Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit, Emily
Richardson and William Raban.
For the first time, we bring together these ideas,
and related writers, filmmakers and artists, for
a major season. Urban Wandering explores
familiar landmarks of London life – the pub and
the cafe, the river, markets, architecture and the
secret city underneath the ground. Films, walks
and talks look at the changes in the city brought
about by bombing and the Blitz, by migration
and changes in community. A special screening,
Barbitopia, celebrates the utopian vision of the
Barbican itself and we welcome Mike Leigh,
Stephen Poliakoff and a host of other
filmmakers and writers to discuss their work.
Finally, we host a gala event in Leytonstone
with our partners Create London, exploring the
East London of the UK’s legendary film director
Alfred Hitchcock with a screening of his 1958
masterpiece, Vertigo.
Robert Rider
Head of Cinema
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Fri 20 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 3
Estate U*
+ ScreenTalk with Will Self, Lynsey
Hanley and Andrea Luka Zimmerman
A whistle-stop tour through five decades of
social housing provision in the capital. Ernö
Goldfinger is interviewed from the 26 th floor
of Balfron Tower in East London; New Brutalist
architects Alison and Peter Smithson defend
their plans for Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar;
and construction firm Laing & Son defend their
cottage estates.
After the screening, join our speakers as they
debate the key issues of social housing policy
today. In the years since these films were made,
the estates featured have experienced mixed
fortunes: Robin Hood Gardens, for instance,
has been demolished – with the support of 80%
of its residents, but to the outrage of leading
architects Lords Rogers and Foster. With the
death of Margaret Thatcher, commentators
have assessed the outcomes of her ‘right to buy’
policy; during this same period, the coalition’s
‘bedroom tax’ has come into force.
Film programme running time 67 min
It Always Rains on Sunday © Ealing Studios
Events
Wed 18 Sep 7pm, Cinema 1
It Always Rains on Sunday PG
+ ScreenTalk with Iain Sinclair
Writer Iain Sinclair selects one of the key films
made about East End life after the Second
World War. The film tells the story of an escaped
criminal who returns to Bethnal Green to seek
refuge with his former girlfriend, who is now
married. Postwar rationing, racketeering and
domestic tension provide a background for
this gritty film noir realist drama, one of Ealing
Studios finest achievements.
UK 1947 Dir Robert Hamer 92 min
Thu 19 Sep 6pm, Cinema 3
Bronco Bullfrog 15
+ Introduction by Barney Platts-Mills
A tale of teenage love and alienation, played
out among the cafes, bombsites and new
brutalist high-rise flats of Stratford. The film
grew out of a project run by veteran theatre
director Joan Littlewood at the Theatre Royal,
Stratford East, and was made on a shoestring
with a cast of non-professionals. Outstanding
performances by Del Walker and Anne
Gooding offer fresh, vivid characters.
UK 1970 Dir Barney Platts-Mills 99 min
Thu 19 Sep 8pm, Cinema 3
Surveillance PG*
+ Introduction by Chris Petit
Chris Petit has been surveying the city in
his films and writing since the 1980s and this
evening’s programme showcases some of
his work. Created for the BBC Late Show,
Surveillance is a ten-minute found-footage
opera, partly inspired by Chris Marker’s La
Jetée. The film’s vocal commentary explains the
similarity between surveillance tapes and the
silent movies of the Lumière brothers.
UK 1993 10 min
+ London Labyrinth
An impressionistic, personal view of London,
presented through the use of archive film.
UK 1993 39 min
+ Unrequited Love
Chris Petit’s meditation on cities and history is
both a film-essay on cinema (Hitchcock and
Antonioni) and a story of stalking and being
stalked, of waiting, the fear of violence and
of modern technology. Based on the novel by
Greg Dart.
UK 2006 77 min
Fri 20 Sep 8.45pm, Cinema 3
A Clockwork Orange 18
When Stanley Kubrick wanted a setting for
Anthony Burgess’ tale of alienation and
ultra-violence, he knew just where to go. In
1971, architects had just finished work on the
location that would best express the horrifying,
anti-human dystopia inhabited by Alex and his
droogs: the Thamesmead estate.
UK 1971 Dir Stanley Kubrick 136 min
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Bronco Bullfrog © Maya Film Productions
A Clockwork Orange © Warner Bros/Park Circus
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Sun 22 Sep 5pm, Cinema 3
The London Nobody Knows U
Finisterre © BFI
Sat 21 Sep 1.45pm, Cinema 3
Finisterre 12
A hymn to London that takes us on a journey
from the suburbs to the heart of the city, with
a beguiling score featuring the melancholy
pop of St. Etienne. London has long
been a source of influence, stimulation
and curiosity for the band and the film is a
poignant ‘psycho-geographical’ drama that
celebrates the capital’s seediness and glory.
UK 2003 Dir Paul Kelly and Kieran Evans 60 min
+ Twilight City
This Black Audio Film Collective film
maps London through an excavation of
Docklands, the City, Limehouse and the Isle
of Dogs. Moving between archival image,
studio interview, photographic tableau and
travelling long shots, London is re-imagined
as a night time city of light and glass,
bordered by a landscape of dreams.
UK 1989 Dir Reece Auguiste 52 min
Sat 21 Sep 6pm, Cinema 3
The River: A selection of shorts
by William Raban
+ Introduction by William Raban
Thames Film PG*
Raban’s reflective, ambivalent approach to
cinematic Modernism reaches its apogee in this
film. Narrated by John Hurt, it is the closest
Raban comes to a conventional documentary,
incorporating archive film from 1921-1951,
panoramic photographs taken in 1937.
UK 1986 Dir William Raban 66 min
+ Beating the Bridges PG*
From the wealthy surburbs of west London,
the Thames flows past the familiar landmarks
at Chelsea, Westminster and the City, to the
industrial flatlands beyond Dartford Bridge.
The 30 bridges spanning the river provide a
range of acoustic space that is featured on
the soundtrack by ambient reverb and a live
percussion score.
UK 1998 Dir William Raban 11 min
Underground © BFI
Sat 21 Sep 7.30pm, Cinema 3
Naked 18
+ Screentalk with Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh’s London is as distinctive as
Federico Fellini’s Rome or Yasujiro Ozu’s
Tokyo, and his regular use of its streets,
shops, office blocks and markets are
testament to his love of the city. In Naked,
Leigh's unflinching depiction of a young
homeless man’s odyssey through the capital
is crowned by a chilling and exhilarating
performance by David Thewlis.
UK 1993 Dir Mike Leigh 126 min
Sun 22 Sept 3pm, Cinema 3
Underground PG
+ Introduction by Neil Brand
We explore the secret, hidden London
beneath our feet with Anthony Asquith’s
1928 silent gem. This tale of jealousy, love and
murder culminates in a thrilling chase on the
tube lines, with a soundtrack featuring Neil
Brand’s scintillating jazz score performed by
the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
UK 1928 Dir Anthony Asquith 84 min
A rare screening of a precious documentary,
which reveals the underside of London in
1967. James Mason guides us to covert
parts of the city, showing us places that, at
that time, had survived the bulldozer. Street
markets, entertainers and the homeless
are seen as we tour the Bedford Theatre
in Camden Town, the men’s toilets at
Holborn station and Chapel Market.
UK 1967 Dir Norman Cohen 53 min
+ Under Night Streets U
Each night after the last tube train has departed,
the ‘fluffers’ and other workers, go underground
to clean and repair the tracks.
UK 1958 Dir Ralph Keene 18 min
+ Under Your Feet U
Made by the Rank Organisation as part of their
weekly Look at Life series, this 1962 short takes
us under London and into the tunnels, cellars,
vaults and hidden reservoirs that lie beneath
our feet.
UK 1962 Narrated by Tim Turner 9 min
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The London Nobody Knows © Norcon
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Sun 22 Sep 7pm, Cinema 3
Hidden City 15
Thu 26 Sep 8.30pm, Cinema 3
The Stuart Hall Project #
+ Introduction by Stephen Poliakoff
In his debut feature film, Stephen Poliakoff
creates a potent portrait of an unknown
world beneath the streets of London. A writer
(Charles Dance) becomes involved with a
young woman (Cassie Stuart) who is obsessed
with finding some mysterious images hidden
within a 1940s Government information
film. The locations are brilliantly chosen: an
ancient part of the Underground system, a vast
subterranean chamber under Oxford Street and
the desolation of a huge landfill site.
UK 1988 Dir Stephen Poliakoff 108 min
+ ScreenTalk with John Akomfrah
This latest film-essay blends archival footage,
home movies, television appearances and the
music of Miles Davis. Black Audio Film Collective
founder John Akomfrah creates a lyrical
and emotionally powerful portrait of the life
and philosophy of one of the UK’s leading
intellectuals, Stuart Hall, while exploring issues
of identity, immigration and assimilation.
UK 2013 Dir John Akomfrah 95 min
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Hidden City
Mon 23 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 1
Barbitopia PG*
+ Introduction by David Heathcote
and Elain Harwood
Built out of the bomb craters following the
Blitz, the story of the Barbican is told through
this enthralling programme of rare archive
documentaries. Titles include Barbican Regained
(1963), Look at Life: Top People (1960), Barbican
(1969) and South of Watford (1988).
Film programme running time approx 90 min
Mon 23 Sep 8.15pm, Cinema 3
Ian Nairn –
The Poet of Subtopia U*
+ ScreenTalk with Elain Harwood,
Owen Hatherley and Travis Elborough
A celebration of pioneering architecture
critic and topographer, Ian Nairn, with
screenings of his rare documentary on Pimlico
(The Pacemakers, 1973) and episodes of
the BBC series Nairn’s Travels (1970). After
the screenings, we host a discussion with
English Heritage’s Elain Harwood and
writers Owen Hatherley (New Ruins of
Great Britain) and Travis Elborough.
Curated by Bob Stanley of St. Etienne
Tue 24 Sep 7pm, Cinema 1
John Smith’s London PG*
+ ScreenTalk with John Smith
A portrait of London through the eyes of
artist, filmmaker and avant-garde hero
John Smith, compiling four of his short
films that use the capital as subject, material
and ally: Hackney Marshes – November 4th
1977 (1977), The Black Tower (1985–7), Blight
(1994–6) and Lost Sound (1998–2001).
Film programme running time 81 min
Part of Architecture on Film
Curated by The Architecture Foundation,
in partnership with LUX
Wed 25 Sep 6.30pm, Cinema 3
I Hired a Contract Killer 15
Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Ealing comedy on
downers’ follows a discarded civil servant
who, having unexpectedly fallen in love, seeks
refuge from the hit man he no longer requires.
Shunning ‘landmark London’, Kaurismäki
opts for off-beat East End locations, many
apparently suggested by his friend, British expunk
Nicky Tesco of The Members who, along
with Joe Strummer, has a cameo in the film.
Fin/Swe 1990 Dir Aki Kaurismäki 74 min
The Stuart Hall Project © BFI
Wed 25 Sep 8pm, Cinema 3
Nighthawks 15
+ ScreenTalk with Ron Peck
and Paul Hallam
Director Ron Peck’s first feature is an unsung
gem of indie British cinema and a fascinating
document of life in late-1970s London.
Nighthawks chronicles the double life of a
vulnerable and semi-closeted teacher at an East
End school, who spends his nights cruising gay
bars and clubs. Produced at Four Corners studio
in Bethnal Green, which continues to support
filmmakers from disadvantaged communities.
UK 1978 Dir Ron Peck 109 min
Thu 26 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 3
World City: Insights on
Migration in London PG*
+ ScreenTalk with Marc Isaacs and Kyoko
Miyake, chaired by Sukhdev Sandhu
From the casual racism of the1920s and
displaced migrant communities in the East
End, to the multilingual lullabies now heard in
Hackney, this programme gives faces and voices
to the City's endlessly diverse neighbourhoods.
Including Cosmopolitan London (1924), The
Vanishing Street (1962), Sampling London (1994),
Lift (2001), and Hackney Lullabies (2011).
Programme running time 71 min
In association with Moving Worlds
at Counterpoints Arts
Fri 27 Sep 6.30pm, Cinema 3
The Pedway:
Elevating London U*
UK Premiere + ScreenTalk
with Chris Bevan Lee and
Professor Michael Hebbert
It was one of the most revolutionary architectural
ideas of the post-war era – the Corporation
of London’s plan in the 1950s to separate
pedestrians from traffic by building a network
of elevated walkways through the City.
Exploring the unsuccessful ‘Pedway’ scheme,
the film captures the abandoned remains that,
unknown to the public, still haunt the Square
Mile. Preceded by a selection of short films
and followed by a selection of shorts and
ScreenTalk with director Chris Bevan Lee
and contributor to the film Prof Michael
Hebbert (Professor of Town Planning, UCL).
UK 2013 Dir Chris Bevan Lee 40 min
The Pedway: Elevating London © Chris Bevan Lee
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Fri 27 Sep 7pm, Camera Cafe & Bar
Barbican Film Quiz –
The London Edition
Can you tell your Love Actually from your Long
Good Friday? Test your knowledge at our film
quiz devoted to wandering this fair city. Followed
by a screening of the cult classic An American
Werewolf in London.
Visit barbican.org.uk/film for team
registration details.
Fri 27 Sep 9pm, Cinema 2
An American Werewolf
in London 18
Join us for a priceless slice of 1980s nostalgia
with pioneering visual effects and a climactic
chase through Piccadilly Circus.
US/UK 1981 Dir John Landis 97 min
Sat 28 Sep 2pm, Cinema 3
Swandown 12A
Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain
Sinclair board a swan pedalo in Hastings and
pedal it 160 miles to Hackney, via the rivers of
Kent and the Thames, ending up at the site of
the Olympic Games.
UK 2012 Dir Andrew Kötting 98 min
Sat 28 Sept 4pm, Cinema 3
As Seen in the Archives #
A rare opportunity to see London through the
lenses of local residents. Over the decades,
Londoners across the city have captured
stunning images of daily London life, often with
striking skill. This programme brings together a
selection of these nostalgic and fascinating films
alongside quirky public information titles that
include market shopping in Greenwich, how
to be happy in Brent and blooming Hackney.
Programme presented in partnership with London’s
Screen Archives, supported by Film London.
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Swandown © Anonymous Bosch
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Sun 29 Sep 6pm, Cinema 3
Free Cinema and
Beyond 1: Coffee and Quiffs U*
Sat 28 Sep 7pm, St Margaret’s Church,
Leytonstone, E11 3NG
Hitchcock’s East End: Vertigo PG
+ Introduction and walk
A unique opportunity to see Hitchcock’s
masterpiece Vertigo in the magnificent
Victorian surroundings of St Margaret’s Church,
Leytonstone. Each ticket includes a guided walk
that takes in Hitchcock’s birthplace and the
streets where he grew up, starting at Leytonstone
Underground station from 5pm.
US 1958 Dir Alfred Hitchcock 123 min
Hitchcock’s East End is commissioned with Create
London, presented with the Barbican cinema
department and delivered with Nomad Cinema.
Commissioned by Hill Residential,
M & N Place and Waltham Forest Council.
Breezy portraits of working-class life in the
capital: the Free Cinema documentaries
are some of the most warm and enjoyable
films about London life. This programme
brings together three films loosely united
around the idea of ‘youth culture’: Momma
Don’t Allow (1956) drops in on a Wood
Green jazz evening, We Are the Lambeth
Boys (1959) mingles at a youth club in Oval
and Nice Time (1957) captures a Saturday
night out on the town at Piccadilly.
Programme running time 91 min
Sun 29 Sep 2pm, Cinema 3
The Happy Family U
The Blitz and post-war reconstruction reshaped
the London landscape. This delightful comedy
from Muriel Box tells the story of Mr and
Mrs Lord, who refuse to move out of their
corner shop on the South Bank, to make
way for the building of the Festival Hall.
Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison
and George Cole star as the underdogs
resisting police, bailiffs and attempts by
government ministers to demolish their home.
UK 1952 Dir Muriel Box 86 min
Sun 29 Sep 4pm, Cinema 3
The Sandwich Man U
Capturing the cars, fashions, architecture
and London streets of the mid-1960s, The
Sandwich Man stars Michael Bentine as a
professional ‘urban wanderer’, walking the city
streets with his sandwich board to advertise
the suits and overcoats of a local tailor. Laden
with slapstick, comedy skits and stars of the
era including Harry H Corbett, Bernard
Cribbins, Diana Dors, Stanley Holloway
Norman Wisdom and Suzy Kendall.
UK 1966 Dir Robert Hartford-Davis 91 min
We Are the Lambeth Boys © Graphic Films
Sun 29 Sep 8.15pm, Cinema 3
Free Cinema and Beyond 2:
The East End U*
Set around the bombsites, narrow streets,
riversides, warehouses, markets and pubs
of the East End, Lorenza Mazzetti’s
experimental, semi-documentary film
Together (1956) follows the story of two East
End dockers and forms the centerpiece of
this collection of short films. Includes Bow
Bells (1954) and Portrait of Queenie (1964),
a documentary profile of blues singer and
landlady Queenie Watts in her East End pub.
Programme running time 112 min
East One © Phil Maxwell
Mon 30 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 3
East One 12
+ ScreenTalk with Hazuan Hashim,
Phil Maxwell and Alan Gilbey
East London filmmakers Hazuan Hashim
and Phil Maxwell have brilliantly captured
the area in photography and moving image
for years, and their latest work traces the major
changes that have occurred in Spitalfields and
Banglatown. Candidly looking at immigration,
regeneration, living conditions and culture
through the eyes of local residents, they make
extensive use of Maxwell’s vast photo archive.
UK 2013 Dir Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell
70 min
Mon 30 Sep 8.15pm, Cinema 3
London –
The Modern Babylon 15
+ Introduction by Julien Temple
From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous
thinkers, political radicals and above all
ordinary people, Julien Temple’s film is the
story of London’s immigrants and bohemians,
and how together they changed the city forever.
The story unfolds through archive footage
and the voices of Londoners past and present,
powered by popular music of the times.
UK 2012 Dir Julien Temple 128 min
Tue 1 Oct 6.15pm, Cinema 3
Going Underground
with Karen Russo
+ ScreenTalk with Karen Russo and
independent curator Tom Morton
An evening of film with Karen Russo
complementing her installation Mole Man in
the cinema foyer (see page 17). For Economy of
Excess (2005), Russo used a small robot camera,
conventionally used to locate blockages, to
explore the subterranean parallel universe
of an Essex sewer system. Her latest film,
Externsteine (2012), explores the relationship of
various cults – from neo-Pagans, New Agers
and neo-Nazis – to the mysterious Externsteine
rock formations in northern Germany.
UK 2005/2009/2012 Dir Karen Russo 70 min
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Mole Man © 2008, Karen Russo
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Tue 1 Oct 8pm, Cinema 3
Faceless
+ Emily Richardson shorts 12A
+ ScreenTalk with Manu Luksch
and Emily Richardson
Manu Luksch’s sci-fi film Faceless uses images
from CCTV video-surveillance systems in
London, obtained by Freedom of Information
requests. In this daring work, she moulds a
familiar London into an eerie and oppressive
place, where everyone is faceless. One morning,
a woman finds she has a face and attempts to
rediscover its lost power and history.
UK 2008 Dir Manu Luksch 50 min
+ Memo Mori
A journey through Hackney tracing loss and
disappearance, with commentary and readings
from Hackney, That Red Rose Empire by Iain
Sinclair.
UK 2009 Dir Emily Richardson 23 min
+ Block
Block looks at the incidental activity that takes
places inside and outside a tower block in South
London over the period of several months.
UK 2005 Dir Emily Richardson 11 min
+ Nocturne
Shot in deserted streets around the East End of
London and Docklands.
UK 2002 Dir Emily Richardson 5 min
Wed 2 Oct 6.15pm, Cinema 3
Kiss the Sky –
Explore Everything:
Talk with Bradley L. Garrett
and Will Self
We welcome Bradley L. Garrett to discuss his
new book Explore Everything with author Will
Self. Garrett, a researcher at Oxford University,
is the daredevil place-hacker who rose to
fame after he climbed the Shard. Influenced
by psycho-geography and other urban theory,
his group, the London Consolidation Crew,
has explored buildings, sewers and bridges in
London and beyond.
Presented in association with Verso Publishing
Wed 2 Oct 8pm, Cinema 3
London U
+ ScreenTalk with Patrick Keiller
Patrick Keiller’s seminal film chronicles a
year in the life of the capital through the eyes
of imaginary protagonist Robinson, and an
unseen narrator, voiced by Paul Scofield. As
Robinson wanders the city, quoting French poets
such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, he looks for
comforting public spaces, but finds them only
in the suburbs of Wembley and the arcades of
Brixton Market.
UK 1994 Dir Patrick Keiller 85 min
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Nocturne © Emily Richardson
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Let us take you
on a journey…
Sun 22 and 29 Sep
Barbican Conservatory
The Sounds of London
Enjoy an aural installation with work by Chris
Petit and Iain Sinclair whilst walking amongst
the plants, trees, finches and exotic fish of the
second largest conservatory in London.
Free admission
18 Sep–2 Oct, Barbican Estate
Architecture Tours
Explore the architecture of the Barbican via the
highwalks and discover the origins of its designs.
Check online for details.
18 Sep–2 Oct, Cinemas 2 & 3 Foyer
Karen Russo: Mole Man
Mole Man, 2008, by London-based Israeli
artist Karen Russo is a fascinating photographic
record stemming from her research into
the psycho-geography of underground
environments in London. It comprises a series
of photographs and text in response to her
investigation into the compulsion of 77 yearold
William Lyttle, a Hackney resident fined
£100,000 for digging functionless tunnels under
his house for over 40 years, and who, until his
death, defended his right to dig.
Walks and talks
with our partners
Take a fresh look at London streets and join
one of the many guided tours with our partner
organisations happening in the local area.
City Garden Walks
Take a tour of the ancient burial grounds in
Bunhill Fields
citygardenwalks.com
Museum of London walks
From ancient ruins to modern day facades
London is a city of many stories. Join experts
from the Museum of London as they lead a
variety of special walks around the capital. All
tickets must be booked in advance on 020 7001
9844 or at museumoflondon.org.uk/walks
Diamond Street App
A free GPS-activated rich media digital app
for smartphones and tablets. Go on a journey
through the historic jewellery quarter of Hatton
Garden and the stories in Rachel’s Lichtenstein’s
recent book Diamond Street: The Hidden World
of Hatton Garden. Guided by Rachel, along
with a host of other characters, the secrets of
the streets around the Hatton Garden area will
be revealed to users as they wander around the
area, listening and exploring.
rachellichenstein.com
Calendar
Time Event Venue Page
Wed 18 Sep
7pm It Always Rains on Sunday Cinema 1 3
Thu 19 Sep
6pm Bronco Bullfrog Cinema 3 3
8pm Surveillance Cinema 3 3
Fri 20 Sep
6.15pm Estate Cinema 3 4
8.45pm A Clockwork Orange Cinema 3 4
Sat 21 Sep
1.45pm Finisterre Cinema 3 5
6pm The River: A selection of shorts Cinema 3 5
7.30pm Naked Cinema 3 6
Sun 22 Sep
3pm Underground Cinema 3 6
5pm The London Nobody Knows Cinema 3 6
7pm Hidden City Cinema 3 7
Mon 23 Sep
6.15pm Barbitopia Cinema 1 7
8.15pm Ian Nairn – The Poet of Subtopia Cinema 3 7
Tue 24 Sep
7pm John Smith’s London Cinema 1 7
Wed 25 Sep
6.30pm I Hired a Contract Killer Cinema 3 7
8pm Nighthawks Cinema 3 8
Thu 26 Sep
6.15pm World City: Insights on Migration in London Cinema 3 8
8.30pm The Stuart Hall Project Cinema 3 8
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18 Sep–2 Oct, 7pm daily
Camera Cafe & Bar, Beech Street
London Orbital #
Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair's poignant visual
poem follows the M25 as it circles London.
UK 2002 76 min
14–28 Sep, Cinema 2
Framed Film Club
Saturday morning London themed film
screenings for children. Check online for
full details.
Sat 21 Sep 3.45pm, Cinema 2
Attack the Block
Framed Focus
A group of teenagers defend their London
estate from an alien invasion.
UK 2011 Dir Joe Cornish 84 min
All photographs commissioned by the Barbican for the Urban Wandering season.
© Josh Lustig
With thanks to
British Film Institute
BFI Screen Online
Museum of London
London Film School
Film London
Four Corners
East End Film Festival
Lux
Birkbeck College
Shanida Scotland (BBC Storyville)
London Metropolitan Archives
Gareth Evans
London Screen Archives
* Locally classified
# Certificate to be confirmed
Fri 27 Sep
6.30pm The Pedway: Elevating London Cinema 3 8
7pm Barbican Film Quiz – The London Edition Camera Cafe & Bar 11
9pm An American Werewolf in London Cinema 2 11
Sat 28 Sep
2pm Swandown Cinema 3 11
4pm As Seen in the Archives Cinema 3 11
7pm Hitchcock’s East End: Vertigo St Margaret’s Church 13
Sun 29 Sep
2pm The Happy Family Cinema 3 13
4pm The Sandwich Man Cinema 3 13
6pm Free Cinema and Beyond 1 Cinema 3 13
8.15pm Free Cinema and Beyond 2 Cinema 3 13
Mon 30 Sep
6.15pm East One Cinema 3 14
8.15pm London – The Modern Babylon Cinema 3 14
Tue 1 Oct
6.15pm Going Underground with Karen Russo Cinema 3 14
8pm Faceless + Emily Richardson shorts Cinema 3 15
Wed 2 Oct
6.15pm Kiss the Sky – Explore Everything Cinema 3 15
8pm London Cinema 3 15
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