Sat 11 April, 7.30pm
Things to Come (u)
£5.50/ £4.00 conc

A didactic overview of future history through the lens of the troubled 1930s, involving  H.G. Wells, a champion of academic Future Studies who authored and oversaw the project, almost as an epilogue to his book ‘The Outline of History’. The film posits the next 100 years up to 2036 predicting a century of war, plague and subterranean cities.
Dir. William Cameron Menzies. UK. 1936 1h 40m.  

Thurs 23 April, 7pm & 8pm
Double Bill: La Jetée (ctba) & Alphaville (12A)
£5.50/£4.00 conc

One of cinema’s great short films. The tale of a doomed society of the future, and one man’s futile attempts to save it, is told entirely in photographs bar one single moving shot. Haunting and poetic- moving without moving. Dir. Chris Marker. France. 1962. 28m.

A dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction in which a tough gumshoe turns inter-galactic agent to conquer a strange automated city from which concepts of love and tenderness have been banished. Godard turns contemporary Paris into an icily dehumanised city of the future. Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. France. 1965. 1h 39m.

Sun 17 May, 3.30pm
Los Angeles Plays Itself (ctba)
£5.50/ £4.00 conc

A fascinating video essay by Thom Anderson about how movies have portrayed the city of Los Angeles. Superb in its breadth and cogently argued, it weaves together footage from dozens of films made in or about the city, as Anderson gradually builds his thesis about how Hollywood has represented and misrepresented its home city.
Dir. Thom Anderson. USA. 2003. 2h 49m.

Sun 17 May, 7.30pm
Passport to Pimlico (u)
£5.50/£4.00 conc

A London district discovers that it is in fact part of Burgundy, and declares its independence in this charming Ealing comedy, mixing social realism with fantastical premise. The debate over civic improvement verus business-led redevelopment still preoccupies urban planners.
Dir. William Cameron Menzies. UK 1949. 1h 24m.

Sat 27 June, 4pm – 6pm
Futurology: Mash Up Screenings
£3.00

Following the Mash Up activities in the galleries, we invite you to this special family event, screening retro sci-fi TV shows and films themed around the Tommy Støckel exhibition. Ice creams will be on sale during the show. For further details, check Arnolfini’s website.

Sat 18 July, 2pm
Museum Futures: Screening and Discussion
Free



Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska’s film Museum Futures: Distributed is a machinima record of the centenary interview with Moderna Museet’s executive Ayan Lindquist in June 2058. It explores a possible genealogy for contemporary art practice and its institutions, by re-imagining the role of artists, museums, galleries, markets, ‘manufactories’ and academies. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Neil Cummings and the curators of the Sequelism exhibition, imagining the future of art institutions.

Fri 21 August, 7.30pm
Sequelism Artists Screening Programme
£3.00/£2.00 conc

A programme of artists’ shorts, developed by the curators of Sequelism, to accompany the exhibition. Videos screened will include works by Marjolijn Dijkman, David Maljkovic and Julia Meltzer & David Thorne. Introduced by Nav Haq, Exhibitions Curator, Arnolfini.

Jordan Wolfson, Untitled (the nothing), 2009
9mins 51sec

Marjolijn Dijkman, Wandering through the future, 2007
60mins

Haluk Akakce, Tomorrow is Another Day, 2005
9mins 55sec

Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, We Will Live to See These Things, 2007
47mins

Sat 22 August, 2.30pm
Futurology Special: Planet of the Apes day
£6.00/£4.50 conc

The classic sci-fi franchise, replete with plot twists, prosthetics and concerted attempts to engage with the knotty social issues of the day via a ‘planet where apes are the rulers and man the beast’. The original was followed by four sequels, a TV series and cartoon, dolls, play-sets, comic books and a Tim Burton remake. Enjoy the 1968 Planet of the Apes (PG), and the first and best two sequels – Beneath the Planet of the Apes (15), and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (PG) – screened back-to-back.
Dir. Various, USA, 1968 – 73.

Sun 23 August, 2.30pm
A Double Bill chosen by Tommy Støckel to accompany his exhibition: Slaughterhouse- five (15) & Reconstruction (12A)
£6.00/£4.50 conc

The surprisingly well-realised film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s celebrated anti-war novel, which follows Billy Pilgrim, survivor of the Allied bombing of Dresden and now a man ‘unstuck’ in time, as he flits uncontrollably back and forth through the span of his own life and into the future.
Dir. George Roy Hill. USA. 1972. 1h 44m

Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, Reconstruction treads a precarious line and pulls it off with aplomb and glittering performances. Both experimental and convincing, like a fusion between Rohmer and Haneke, it entangles the viewer in an elaborate story of a romantic affair, backed by a beautifully washed-out Copenhagen, which transgresses playfully across alternating layers of reality.
Dir. Christoffer Boe. Denmark. 2003. 1h 30m. Subtitled.

Fri 28 August, 7.30pm
The Age of Stupid (12A)
£6.00/£4.50 conc

Rough-and-ready, urgent and passionate; apocalyptic fiction sits alongside modern reportage in this film as Pete Postlethwaite plays the last man standing in a climate-fried world, introducing an archive of news clips and interviews filmed way back in the first decade of the 21st century and musing on how humankind could have ignored the environmental warning signs.
Dir. Franny Armstrong, UK, 2008, 1h 30m

Sat 29 August, 6.30pm
Future Shocks
£3.00/£2.00 conc

An evening of artists films (from Stan Vanderbeek, Dara Birnbaum, Len Lye and more), retro-futurist music videos and a rare screening of the film of Alvin Toffler’s infamous futurological treatise, Future Shock, in which Orson Welles outlines the onrushing horrors of technological advance as seen from 1972 (including an uncredited Vanderbeek). Embrace or denounce the technological future gone past with these cut outs, cut ups, comic books, clunky computers and a healthy dose of hysteria. 1hr approx

Sat 29 August, 8pm
Watchmen (18)
£6.00/£4.50 conc

Closely based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, with its alternate universe of vigilante superheroes and power-crazed U.S. politicians heading for nuclear disaster, Watchmen was described as unfilmable, but there are flashes of visual brilliance throughout, and performances that drill deep into the novel’s haunted soul.
Dir. Zack Snyder, USA, 2009, 2h 42m

Sun 30 August, 7.30pm
Aelita: Queen of Mars (U), with a new live score by Minima
£7.00/£5.00 conc

Socialist science-fiction spectacular, Aelita was the first big-budget Soviet movie, intended as ideologically-correct mass entertainment to rival Hollywood. The story follows an engineer named Los who leads a construction effort to build a spaceship, dreaming that the ship will carry him to Mars where he can meet the woman of his dreams. The movie’s influence is hard to overestimate: its incredible set design would soon be echoed by the likes of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Flash Gordon.
Dir. Yakov Protazanov. USSR. 1924. 2h. Subtitled.

With acclaimed soundscapers Minima performing a new live soundtrack. Minima have been accompanying silent and experimental film since 2006. Based in London and Bristol, this will be the first time they take their unique sonic palette into space.