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Current Transmissions (online)
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Cinema 3
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1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Stream some of the works featured in this showcase of new film, audio and interactive work by emerging London-based artists.
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Money Up
1 January 2022 – 1 January 2072
A London boy gains more than you’d think from a fistful of coppers.
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WINK
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A small group of queer punks find safety and comfort in their local queer pub but their world is turned upside down.
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Wave 3 (Cancelled?)
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Someone who imagines everyone in their life as characters in an action figure line. Friends, family, lovers, acquaintances.
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Volcanoes in Ice
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An acoustic architectural artefact designed through the voice of volcanoes in ice.
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Under The Noise
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
The intimacies of blackness through the lens of a house party at the height of summer.
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TOTAL ENJOYMENT
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A young man grapples with sexuality, class, and pubic hair, in small town Essex.
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Top Wavers
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A light-hearted conversation between three teen friends on how they’ve achieved the perfect hair waves.
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To the Crew: Vocal Mix
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
First meet in the local Sainsbury’s car park. Narrated by the one n only MC Speed.
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The Fabric of Sound
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An intimate exploration of synesthesia through sound and storytelling.
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The Dupe
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A dance between two, but who is controlling who?
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STONEWALL 2069
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
What will the next 50 years of queer liberation look like – and importantly, what technologies could we hack, appropriate and queer in our ongoing fight for equal rights?
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Staff of Life
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A day inside a bakery that creates its own versions of Western pastries.
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Skin & Pearl
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Two black womxn navigate their friendship being rocked by toxic femininity & colourism.
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Signal to Noise
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A rhythmical tale of birdsong and human whistled languages.
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Rituals & Practices: Exploring Gender Identity Today
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An audio piece that explores how we engage with gender through rituals.
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Reesheh
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A story of struggle and survival of one of the most ancient human forms of expression.
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Rave Rituals
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A docu-rave on the rituals of raving culture through the pulse of UK House and Garage.
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Radio Silence
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A short film about the peculiar communication of a father with his daughter.
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Owulide
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A young woman struggles to communicate some important news with her East African grandma.
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Other Voices
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Through a series of ‘other voices’, trans and gender non-confirming people express their experiences through forms of art and conversation.
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Muriid
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A dream-like short poetry film that follows a seeker to his spiritual opening.
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Mirrors
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
In a lonesome reality, Lomo finds a way to travel to an alternate universe.
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Lucky House
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Lucky House deals with notions of desires, identity and cultural assimilation.
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I’m Sinking In A Room So I Log Into My Tomb
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Black womxnhood, battling the physical present and dominating future infinities.
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ISHTAR
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An experimental short film based on the gender-fluid Mesopotamian deity.
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Inside Out
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A work about the alienation that can come with navigating a cross-cultural existence, drawing on the artist’s own experience of growing up from a mixed-heritage, working-class British-Muslim family.
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I Am Not A Burden
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A sonic protest against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace.
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Frenulum
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An experimental opera that follows eight children as they perform imaginary tongue surgery on a member of their group in order to help them speak phonetic sounds from the English language better.
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Fanny Eaton: The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Model
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Hand drawn, pencil animation short about the life of a mixed heritage Pre-Raphaelite model.
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EXPATS
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Two British expats hatch a dangerous scheme to win French citizenship and beat Brexit.
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Day Zero
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A visceral account of a stem cell transplant told through poetry and sound collage.
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Brown Cow, Pink Milk
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
What can we say? It’s Brown Cow Stunning.
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Body to Body
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A short film that animates deep sea specimens from The Discovery Collection to envisage the (e)merging old and new materials in the ocean today.
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Blue Corridor 15
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Faultlines emerge as tensions come to a head in a teenage friendship close to sisterhood.
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BIG MUMMY
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Grace Adewale was about to add murder to her long list of fuck-ups, but then her aunty stepped in to help her outrun the truth.
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Between Heaven And London
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
Two friends lament over the changing landscape of North West London, Grenfell, and resistance against the backdrop of local council estates where they were raised.
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Autism And The City: A Sonic Diary
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A sonic diary of an artist with autism, reviving a love for London’s rich soundscapes.
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Aqsa & the 40bags
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An orphaned young Muslim woman cares for her younger brother in South East London. When her helpful downstairs neighbour is threatened by the police, it is her astuteness that will save him, in this trojan horse-inspired story.
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Apocrypha
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
The collage of ‘The Lamentation of a Goblin’ with photography, text and 3D scanned images create a movement through time and space.
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albion, refreshed
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
An audio-visual statement that questions whether traditional British iconography can be used to represent a modern multicultural nation that has been shaped and redefined by immigration.
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a black mass – in instance no.4
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A unique, algorithmically generated soundscape exploring love, care and Blackness.
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+44
1 February 2022 – 1 February 2072
A film of sensitivity, caught flamboyancy clutching masculinity at its side.