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[Arta @_rtab_]

A dream of many years has come true: I had a hand in curating this programme on Serge Daney for the ICA, in conjunction with the dossier we produced on SD with @Sabzianbe

[Institute of Contemporary Arts @ICALondon]

Serge Daney (1944–1992), called "the end of criticism" by Godard, remains a towering voice in film thought. In partnership with Sabzian journal, we present 12 films reflecting his cinephilic, internationalist vision.

📅 27 Aug – 7 Sep
🎟️ Films & tickets: https://t.co/ftbTsaMEe1

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

@_rtab_ @JeremyArblaster Ahead of tomorrow's screening, read Sam's programme note: https://t.co/rb7PuOKiyA

[Arta @_rtab_]

Our new essay, “Between Myth and Reality: Documentary in Iran’s Cinema-ye Azad Movement,” is now live in @IDAorg.

Co-written with Shaghayegh Raoufi and Hadi Alipanah, it explores the documentary practices of Iran’s underground Cinema-ye Azad movement. https://t.co/tMogSr3aMx

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

Curated by @_rtab_

Design by @JeremyArblaster

More info on the season, and tickets:
https://t.co/9GuOLjkK7T

[Arta @_rtab_]

NOT BY LYNCH continues on Fri 12 June with Tobe Hooper's Spontaneous Combustion: a feverish tale of bodily breakdown, government secrecy, and psychic disintegration, and one of the strangest and most overlooked American films of its era. @CinemaMuseum
@yearzerocinema

[Arta @_rtab_]

I wrote an essay for yanco: 'Reclaiming Archives: Images in Fracture'.

It reflects on a short film programme centered around archives, political images, fragmentation, and the limits of representation.

https://t.co/lAlR2B9X0k

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https://t.co/McgJe507VF

[Arta @_rtab_]

I will present a two Cinema-ye Azad screenings at @UCLAFTVArchive on June 13–14.

Recently recovered films by Nasib Nasibi & Behnam Jafari from the underground Iranian film movement (1969–79), following screenings at @ICALondon & Cube Cinema Bristol.

https://t.co/7c1Nsy3nOq

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

@_rtab_ @JeremyArblaster Ahead of tomorrow's screening, check out @Mahda941's programme note:

https://t.co/xtM7QAs88C

[Lord Hydraulic @HydraulicLord]

a must read.

[Arta @_rtab_]

For @SensesofCinema, I wrote about Godard’s Scénario(s) and notebooks with particular focus on the 2024 @ICALondon exhibition.
https://t.co/Shp4fcsGoG

[Arta @_rtab_]

My new piece for the May 2026 issue of @ArtMonthly: an obituary on the great Frederick Wiseman.

Centred on National Gallery (2014), and on how his films patiently build meaning through observation — where the work endures even as the life that produced it passes.

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

Curated by @_rtab_
Design by @JeremyArblaster
More info on the season, and tickets: https://t.co/9GuOLjkK7T

[Arta @_rtab_]

NOT BY LYNCH continues Fri 8 May @CinemaMuseum

Jack Sholder’s The Hidden (1987): a kinetic sci-fi thriller where identity becomes unstable, and something moves from body to body beneath the surface.

With a new programme note by @Mahda941, produced by @yearzerocinema

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

@_rtab_ @JeremyArblaster Ahead of Wednesday's screening, you can now read
@mjpcuervo 's text on Celine and Julie Go Boating:

https://t.co/uuvPBb1DHA

[Arta @_rtab_]

I was invited to reflect on Open the Prison Door to Daylight, a short film programme curated by @ultradogme for Glasgow Short Film Festival.

https://t.co/nxSRVvqu5G

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

The screening will be accompanied by a newly commissioned programme note by critic Maria J. Pérez Cuervo (@mjpcuervo), founder and editor of Hellebore (@helleborezine).

Tickets: https://t.co/pKjBrtFaBB

[Cinema Year Zero @yearzerocinema]

NOT BY LYNCH continues on Wednesday 22 April at @CinemaMuseum with Jacques Rivette’s Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) — a playful, labyrinthine tale of friendship, performance, and storytelling that unfolds somewhere between dream, game, and spell.

Link below👇

[jj @JeremyArblaster]

One week to go until the next @yearzerocinema Not By Lynch event!
Curated by @_rtab_ + programme note from @helleborezine ‘s @mjpcuervo !

22 April at @CinemaMuseum 🎞️

[Arta @_rtab_]

New piece in issue 03 of Narrow Margin:

‘Juliette or foliage?’ — on The Wild Palms, realised by Michael Witt at the @ICALondon.

A Godard project enacted through reel-by-reel alternation of two films — merging into and thinking through one another.

https://t.co/nEtgnMkYxQ

[Arta @_rtab_]

I wrote about Masao Adachi's latest film, Escape, for the April 2026 issue of @ArtMonthly.