Upset The Rhythm present a A People’s History of Music, a slideshow / lecture / film presentation which draws from archival film, sound clips and images to tell a history of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism.
Native Spirit Film Festival present a programme of short films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A with Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller.
A triple bill of films that celebrate the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on the city of London, its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries: Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature, ‘The Moon Over The Alley.’ With an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford.
Native Spirit Film Festival present writing activation and short films programmed by Zain Gibson, and a screening of the feature film MUNDURUKUYÜ – The Forest Of The Fish Women.
Dancing On My Own is a two-day exhibition of artist’s film and video. Shorts by Mark Leckey, Morgan Quaintance and Keith Piper play throughout the day, accompanied by an evening screening of feature length films by Larry Achiampong (Saturday 21st), and Sarah Miles and Zarina Nares (Sunday 22nd).
Animated shorts are a powerful medium for addressing mental health issues, offering a unique and often visually compelling way to explore complex emotions and inner struggles. These 9 short films vividly depict experiences like anxiety, depression, trauma and personal growth, often capturing the nuance of these conditions in ways that words alone cannot.
As psychiatrist Derwood Richards prepares to say goodbye to Rosemary Hamm, his long-term patient, the boundaries between therapy, memory and imagination begin to blur. Their parting opens a portal into a wonderfully strange universe of lost astronauts, Cold War ghosts and a mysterious Soviet-American space station drifting somewhere beyond Saturn.
A gloriously filthy, anarchic animated romp, O Filho da Puta takes family dysfunction, bad behaviour and surreal mayhem and throws them into one beautifully unhinged blender.
Join us for a programme of short animated films that celebrate queer lives, loves, and imaginations. Animation lets us bend reality, dream big, and tell stories in ways words alone can’t.
This is the first of three 1 hour-long student programmes at The Horse Hospital
This is the second of three 1 hour-long student programmes at The Horse Hospital
This is the third of three 1 hour-long student programmes at The Horse Hospital
LIAF’s annual collection of the hottest music videos from all over the world. Animation is an integral element in many of the best music videos - they not only entertain but also inspire, inviting viewers to experience music in a whole new way. They represent a dynamic intersection of art and technology, showcasing the limitless possibilities of creative expression in the digital age.
It’s back. LIAF’s annual descent into the beautifully twisted, gloriously bizarre and downright unhinged. Hand-picked from 2,300 entries, these 16 anti-classics are about as far from Disney as you can get. Expect mutant minds, warped bodies, bad dreams and cinematic insanity - 16 films dragged from the darkness for one wild night only. You know you want it.
Pre-release screening and live performance of SYREN, starring performance artist Søren Müller and adult film star François Sagat. Hosted by Monique Fei and Tomique Gibson, with DJ sets from DJ Jessica Sarah and Dan(na).
A very rare screening of the now out of print DVD film of Peter Christopherson’s solo project Threshold Houseboys Choir:Form Grows Rampant
Galerina presents THE WALL, an experimental film by artists Ruth Angel Edwards and Chloée Maugile. THE WALL is a surreal and absurdist take on housing inequality and its psychological effects. Written and produced in 2023 working with actors from Actors Workshop Nottingham.
An evening of short films followed by a projection of living archival materials with live musical accompaniment, all centred around the genocide in Gaza.
A rare screening of Vive Le Punk [1993], an exclusive documentary made by Roger K Burton, featuring Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood. The couple were captured on film at the Horse Hospital on the eve of our very first exhibition, Vive Le Punk. We will also be displaying select pieces featured in the original exhibition.
Day 7 of Disappearing Images, and the final event of the festival. Featuring live performance from Capital City with Wounder, and Angusraze.
Day 6 of Disappearing Images. Plastique Fantastique present SYNCRET-TEK ANGEL, featuring Gentle Stranger, dove / Christine Kirubi and National Rails.
Day 5 of Disappearing Images. Featuring live performance from Charlie Osborne, a new piece, La Busqueda by Richard Layzell, and Ship Sket.
Day 4 of Disappearing Images. Existers presents an installation of video and audio works by Hexstatic, R.I.P. Germain, London Community Video Archive, Richard Parry, John Smith, and Gee Vaucher & Mick Duffield.
Day 3 of Disappearing Images. Featuring a talk from Mark Leckey and screenings from Klein, R.I.P. Germain, and 54 the Gate.
Day 2 of Disappearing Images. Featuring screenings from Open Secret and bod [包家巷], with live performance from Daniel Gatenio.
Day 1 of Disappearing Images. Featuring Alya Al-Sultani / Fatima Lahham / nunez (trio) | Kenichi Iwasa / Regan Bowering / Harry Murdoch (trio)
A festival of disappearing images. Things that can’t be saved. Across disciplines: film, performance, theatre, music, talk.
An evening of music, performance, film and drag with Mikey Kirkpatrick, Jackson Burton, Nicholas McArthur & Mercedes Benz 1999.
Louis Grace release party, with performance and film screening. Also featuring Lottie, Rael, and Adaer.
Father of Lies is a film and performance-based installation that looks at mainstream media and it’s role within the facilitation of Genocide, war and societal division
Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving images shape belief, doubt, and wonder.
Project DIVFUSE is presenting its second off-site event and a first one at The Horse Hospital. Bringing together several artists who have exhibited or performed at Project DIVFUSE micro art space in Lower Clapton E5 since its doors first opened to the public in July 2021, this is an evening to showcase sound inspired films.
Two films. Two sound systems. One evening exploring what happens when technology becomes ritual, and machines become the medium of devotion. This event centres the apparatus: the speaker stack, the camera, the signal chain — instruments of extreme and intimate expression.
INTERMISSIONS: An audio-visual showcase by the 24/25 FLAMIN Fellows
An evening that moves between embodied rhythm, disembodied choreography, and live improvisation, featuring The Drum Also Dances and Breath Quartet
Often dismissed as gratuitous or artistically empty, gore remains one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. This lecture reframes gore as an aesthetic practice rooted in tactility, craft, and collaboration. Tracing the devaluation of gore films and their fandoms, it situates graphic violence within broader artistic traditions and examines practical effects as a form of resistance to digital smoothness.
A unique interaction of film and live performance, where the narrator/performer exists in many different shapes and places.
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Nitrate Kisses (1992) is the first feature documentary by Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of lesbian cinema. It weaves striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed forbidden and invisible history. Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot In Sodom (1933) is interwoven in this haunting documentary. This will be screened proceeded the film, with a live score.
Mindwarcinema present a screening of the cult classic The Arrival (1980), directed by Ruth Norman of The Unarius Academy of Science. The screening will be accompanied by an in conversation between Tanner F Boyle, author of Getting Spooked and The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction) and Mark Pilkington (author of Mirage Men and publisher of Stranger Attractor Press).
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Black is… Black Ain’t (1995) is the final film of director Marlon Riggs. His camera traverses the country, bringing us face to face with Black folks young and old, rich and poor, rural and urban, gay and straight, grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contested definitions of Blackness. Hooked up to an IV in his hospital bed, Riggs takes strength for his struggle against AIDS from the continual resilience of the African Americans in the face of overwhelming oppression. The screening is proceeded by a selection of shorts by video artist Tom Rubnitz.
His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Buddies (1985), directed by Arthur Bressan Jr., was the first narrative film made about AIDS. Alongside Buddies, Bressan is known for the documentary Gay USA and a number of pornographic films. The screening will be proceeded by a selection of shorts directed by the video artist and AIDS activist Tom Rubnitz.
A multidisciplinary bill, mixing auto-fictional film, live vocals from the heart and independent performance makers Luisa D Rozo and THE3KAYAS, alongside fine tune slector Nymity
What remains in the body after COVID-era anti-Asian racism? A multidisciplinary event exploring how anti-Asian hate during COVID registered in the body and how it might be released together with live performances from Ming Chin Hsieh and Angela Wai Nok Hui
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