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What happens when sex and desire escape the bedroom? 🖤

Collective Visions of Pleasure explores eroticism, resistance and collective world-making across four transgressive films from Japan, the USA, Germany & Mexico.

🎞 28 Oct – 15 Nov
🔗 Tickets: https://t.co/0K4PdS4Yy5

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Due to demand more tickets are now available for TG50 talk. https://t.co/EN0yhannHr Additional screening also of Kezar gig https://t.co/ExF5nyJgAa @MuteUK @ThrobbingGrstle @ICALondon See you there!

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Off-Circuit is a continuing series bringing landmark films from this generation of filmmakers to the big screen.

🎬 Discover more Off-Circuit films: https://t.co/X7AiI5SuWg

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🎞️ Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas’s The Night is Fading Away comes to the UK for its premiere as part of Off-Circuit on 23 October, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

✨ Book now: https://t.co/OGCTiiaiHG
🎥 More screenings from 24 October.

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⚡ 18 Oct: the ICA and Mute present a one-off screening of Throbbing Gristle’s final live performance at San Francisco’s Kezar Pavilion, 1981.

Join us 12–8pm to mark 50 years since TG’s incendiary ICA performance 🔊

🕗 Screening 8pm
🎫 Limited tickets: https://t.co/u2pXl8DGCy

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Just announced 🔊 Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan live at ICA London, 22 May.

Gordon Chapman-Fox’s retro-futurist project soundtracks the rise of a northern new town with shimmering arpeggios, soaring leads & euphoric electronics.

🎫 Book: https://t.co/HgzyCYLU1w

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Fri 23 Oct
12–4pm — Exhibition
6:30–7:30pm — Performances

Sat 24 & Sun 25 Oct
12–6pm — Exhibition

📍 Upper Gallery
🎟️ https://t.co/j3qpoHwo8a

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For the next PULSE, School of the Damned presents new work across moving image, performance and sound, exploring ‘conjuncture’ – moments when political, social and material crises intensify and overlap.

Featuring Carolin Meyer, Daisy C, George Valentine, Ollie Godwin and more

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Next performances: party pooper, 12 & 15 Oct.

Limited tickets: https://t.co/Rt93QF6zCK

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Open now 🎈 Autumn Knight: I Can’t Complain

Knight’s first UK exhibition considers complaining, voice, authority and how power is negotiated in everyday life.

🖤 Visit Tue to Sun, 12–8pm
✨ Pay What You Can, 12–1pm

Video by Fergus Carmichael

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Join curators and writers Lou Stoppard and Federica Chiocchetti in conversation with Mary Stephenson this Thursday, celebrating the publication of Wet Proof 💧

🔗 Book tickets: https://t.co/Y7AjDX3DVP
📌 Thu 8 Oct, 6:30pm

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2pm – Cartas a mis padres muertos (2025), dir. Ignacio Agüero: an intimate correspondence with his parents, tracing five decades of personal and Chilean history.

4pm – Memories of Underdevelopment (1968): a wealthy intellectual navigates post-Revolution Havana.

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🎬 Final screenings of the London Latino Film Festival tomorrow!

12pm – A Bright Future (2025) dir. Lucía Garibaldi
Elisa and her mother live in a city suspended in time, where its brightest young people are sent North in search of a promised future.

🎟️ https://t.co/Dr6kfsxxLN

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🎶 Kiran Leonard joins WACK × lovemusic as support for their In the Round show on 29 Oct.

Strasbourg-based lovemusic join Jennifer Walshe & Neil Luck (aka WACK) for 2 UK premieres.

🔊 Leonard brings noise rock, avant-folk, DIY no-fi & more.

🎫 Tickets: https://t.co/peweepQ8Wq

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On 28 October, SMUT celebrates the release of Ezekiel’s Somewhere between a doll and a dog at the ICA, with a book signing and intimate conversation with writer and editor Osman Ahmed.

🔗 Book tickets: https://t.co/uwaHaF2xjk

Images courtesy of Ezekiel.

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💖 Free exhibition entry with your ticket: https://t.co/isBNj47Glq

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🗯️ Exhibiting artist Autumn Knight selects films for our cinema exploring complaint through humour, frustration & creativity.

21 Oct – No Other Choice, dir. Park Chan-wook
28 Oct – I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck
11 Nov – Persepolis, dir. Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

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Tickets are running low for L’Rain live at the ICA as part of October’s In the Round series 🥵

Taja Cheek’s genre-defying project moves between music, art, film and fashion – one of the most adventurous voices for this warped contemporary moment.

🎟️ https://t.co/sxTNk6iL1a

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Az Zeeb (13 Oct, 8:45pm) follows Rafael Guendelman through a cache of Super 8 films and photographs, uncovering his family’s political histories.

Easter (14 Oct, 6:40pm) centres Sekja, an ageing Korean trans burlesque star, in a glorious film about life.

📅 LFF runs 7–18 Oct

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Some must-see films from this year’s BFI London Film Festival, screening at the ICA 🎞️

Compressed Distances (13 Oct, 6:20pm) brings together four works on oppression, violence and dispossession, where images become acts of defiance and solidarity.

✨ https://t.co/l0afqGJmEG