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Patience (After Sebald)

“Diehard Sebaldians may seek to retrace the footsteps that formed the basis of WG Sebald’s meditative masterpiece The Rings of Saturn. Or they may choose to watch Grant Gee’s film tribute instead. Patience (After Sebald) takes as its fulcrum the German expatriate’s category-defying memoir-cum-history, travelogue-cum-novel – which was published in 1995 and is considered by [...]

This Our Still Life by Andrew Kötting

Iain  reviews Andrew Kötting movie “This Out Still Life” on Sight and Sound, December 2011.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/6648

Evoking his family’s life in their Pyrenean hideaway, This Our Still Lifeis a mesmerising blend of lyrical intensity and freewheeling impressions from unclassifiable British filmmaker Andrew Kötting. By Iain Sinclair

The magic and mystery of the hyperkinetic Andrew Kötting’s drama [...]

Polis is this

“Polis is This wrestles with the six foot eight inch 275lb colossus of poetry. Charles Olson, in the squared circle of understanding. Through never before seen footage and interviews actor John Malkovich leads an all-star unit in a search and explore mission. Olson, the “big fire source” for a restless generation of poets known as [...]

The Golden Machine: A Tour of the Olympic Park with Iain Sinclair

21 July, 11am & 3pm From Old Ford Locks, River Lea, E3 2NN, Tower Hamlets

The Hackney-based author Iain Sinclair (London Orbital; Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire) offers an alternative travelogue to accompany a canal trip into the Olympic Park, based around the search for El Dorado, the mythical city of fools’ gold. Booking essential.

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Screening of ‘It Always Rains on Sunday’!

On Tuesday April 12, we’re showing one of Ealing Studios’ lesser-known masterpieces, Robert Hamer’s ‘It Always Rains on Sunday’ (1947). This is a rare chance to catch Hamer’s stirring portrait of Bethnal Green life in the post-war period, complete with rationing, rowdy pubs and crowded two-up, two-downs.

We’re very pleased that the writer Iain Sinclair, author of [...]