Friday 10th
January
2020
18:30
Fri 10 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
The early works that have defined LSFF's seventeen-year-long preoccupation with the experimental.
20:00
Fri 10 Jan 2020
ICA
Theatre
In partnership with East London troublemakers Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, we delve into the rich history of alt-drag.
21:00
Fri 10 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Kicking off the 17th edition of LSFF, we’re packing comedies of a darker hue and more Lynchian leaning.
Saturday 11th
13:00
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Ruminations on struggling to fit in and feeling uncomfortable in your own skin.
14:30
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Ephemeral films dig into the absurd rhetoric used to warn citizens of insidious communist tactics.
15:00
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Space, the physical self, and emotional states all metamorphosize in these multiform ruminations on territory, death and desire.
16:00
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
From strange corners and hopeless places, a programme of uncynical and unconventional love stories.
16:30
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
A returning crowd-pleaser, LSFF brings you the short and the strange of frugal filmmaking.
17:00
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Wikihow texts, Nina Simone and Citebeur pornography intersect in this programme of cinematic juxtapositions.
17:20
Sat 11 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NFT1
These sensitively handled works look to spaces for retreat and the power in softness.
18:30
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Flavours from across the animation landscape.
19:00
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
An international compendium of experimental short film.
20:30
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
As a movement, grime is hard to define.
21:00
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Appraising Blondie's ’70s and early ’80s video aesthetic with their mega-compilation screening on original VHS.
Sunday 12th
13:00
Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
This eclectic selection delves into the emotional and physical relationships that people build, for better or worse, with their immediate surroundings.
14:30
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
In this treasure trove of oddities, we look at how the ephemeral film functioned in the everyday.
15:00
Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Fantasies of young love, the parodic horror of dental surgery and sublime hymnal singing all feature in this competition programme.
15:30
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
From the ‘listening ears’ of Dungeness, through the industrial districts of Manchester, and back down to the Essex coastline, these shorts survey the state of our small island.
16:30
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
With this selection, we take a dive into the world of the sexual education film.
17:00
Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Veering between found footage, home movies, YouTube snippets and music video aesthetics.
18:00
Sun 12 Jan 2020
The Pickle Factory
Diana Vidrașcu’s work explores the fallibility and subjectivity of memory, time and reality.
18:30
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
The short film works of Jessica Forever directing duo, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
19:00
Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Four powerful new voices span CGI and hand-drawn animation, documentary and artist’s video.
Monday 13th
12:00
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
The industry's gatekeepers offer advice and insight into getting your short film funded.
15:00
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
We look to the power of unions, freelancing culture and the prerogatives of directors in safeguarding their time and labour.
18:30
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Our gift to you each LSFF, a programme of WTF wonders both irreverently baffling and irrevocably brain-melting.
18:45
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
A generous helping of twists and turns, paranormal activity and the phantasmagorical.
19:00
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Science Museum
IMAX Cinema
A retrospective of the boundary-pushing work of Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger at the Science Museum's IMAX.
20:30
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
We’re packing comedies of a darker hue and more Lynchian leaning, with belly laughs and bittersweet chuckles.
20:45
Mon 13 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NFT1
Amidst nostalgia, grief and generational secrets, the duality of absence and presence is felt.
Tuesday 14th
12:00
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
This panel discusses the depiction of Nigeran experience on-screen, hosted by curator and author Nadia Denton.
15:00
Tue 14 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 2
Space, the physical self, and emotional states all metamorphosize in these multiform ruminations on territory, death and desire.
15:00
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
Dissecting the articulation of diasporic identity through film with Nadia Denton, Hetain Patel and more.
18:10
Tue 14 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NFT2
This cross-section of Spheeris's early short films reveal a rule-breaking talent concerned with contemporary life and a desire to reclaim the female body.
18:45
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
The destination falls into obscurity with this programme of journeys: sometimes poignant, sometimes thrilling, and sometimes dangerous.
19:00
Tue 14 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
To help combat the constant tug of productivity anxiety, these shorts present quietude and the joy of play.
20:30
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
Belgian-Congolese musician Baloji performs live alongside a programme of his genre-bending music videos.
21:00
Tue 14 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
What effect does the historical context of a building, a location, or even a song have on our experience of it?
Wednesday 15th
12:00
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
This panel of artists working across film and performance art discuss how to record, edit and communicate visceral ideas.
14:00
Wed 15 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NFT3
In partnership with Oska Bright Film Festival and British Film Institute, LSFF presents a choice selection of shorts from this year’s festival.
15:00
Wed 15 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 2
Wikihow texts, Nina Simone and Citebeur pornography intersect in this programme of cinematic juxtapositions.
15:00
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
A panel exploring the support and resources available to artist filmmakers and moving image artists.
18:30
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
The female characters at the centre of these shorts contend with a loss of control, processing the resulting emotional scars and spiralling selfhoods.
18:45
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
Fiction bleeds into biography as we find ourselves behind the closed doors of London’s cultural melting pot.
19:00
Wed 15 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
This programme questions the ways we look at events happening somewhere else, to someone else.
20:30
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Queer and questioning visions of desire, identity and summoning the power within. Curated by Fringe! Queer Arts & Film Fest.
20:50
Wed 15 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NFT1
Pigment and pixels coalesce in this programme of chromatically infused artists’ film.
21:00
Wed 15 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Through the lenses of pan-African cinema-makers, we explore the auditory experience of ‘listening’ to a film.
Thursday 16th
12:00
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
A practical primer session and open conversation on the practice of 'intimacy directing.'
15:00
Thu 16 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 2
Fantasies of young love, the parodic horror of dental surgery and sublime hymnal singing all feature in this competition programme.
15:00
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
To bookend the day, a theoretical discussion on the responsibilities a filmmaker faces when narrativizing intimacy.
18:45
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
While British politics is dominated by a divisive Brexit, what are the themes consuming other EU countries?
19:00
Thu 16 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
As intimate as a family, as expansive as the internet and as lengthy as decades.
20:30
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
An ensemble of performers from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and special guests revisit the rebellious undercurrents of early ‘80s London and the ‘systems music’ scene
20:45
Thu 16 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NFT1
For our cynical times, a celebration of human connection and good intentions.
21:00
Thu 16 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Unafraid to challenge audience limits, these works wantonly disregard both convention and pleasantries.
Friday 17th
12:00
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
This session looks to the remaining London co-ops and artists' spaces for support and community.
15:00
Fri 17 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 2
Unpacking the role of archive and artefact in memory-making.
15:00
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Stage
Join a host of artist filmmakers in conversation as we discuss the benefits of experimental forms as a means of communicating socially and politically pertinent issues.
18:20
Fri 17 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank
NTF3
Now a yearly staple, these short films meditate on the D/deaf experience.
18:30
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Caught in the messy throes of adolescence, these shorts retread the thorny steps from teendom to adulthood.
18:45
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
These macabre shorts toy with that unsettling, exciting possibility of something ominous in the shadows.
19:00
Fri 17 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
How does the influence of normative structures affect our intimate relationships?
19:30
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Studio
Exploring the divisive online phenomena of ASMR through moving image, dance and gender performativity.
20:30
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Contemporary artists draw from black British lineages and play with conventional notions of experimental filmmaking.
21:00
Fri 17 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Through the work of four artist filmmakers, we take an unflinching look at the human body.
23:30
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
Thrills, chills and spills screened, as is LSFF tradition, at the witching hour.
Saturday 18th
13:00
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
When the going gets tough, the queers grab their cameras and make B-movies. Curated by Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival.
13:00
Sat 18 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Short films exploring experimental, contemporary African cinema, curated by filmmaker-musician Baloji.
14:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Music videos, archive interviews and documentary outtakes
15:00
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
LSFF's classic variety show of comedy shorts and live sketches.
15:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
This programme looks to diaristic articulations of self and the literal form of women ‘talking aloud’.
16:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
A cross-section of the tricksy dynamics of subcultures and the various lives pulsating through Web 2.0.
17:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 2
Illustrated lectures explore how lived experience and academic inquiry can reclaim spaces mediated by whiteness.
17:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Over the course of nearly two decades, Anne Charlotte Robertson obsessively produced the now renowned Five Year Diary.
18:00
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
An overhauled LSFF 2020 offering of diverse music videos from across the globe.
18:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
A time capsule of the strange and forgotten moving image work of yesteryear.
19:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Rich Mix
The Studio
Join us as we bring this year's festival to a close, celebrating the diversity of talent in new short filmmaking.
20:30
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Music videos, performances and oddities from Rubnitz’s all too brief career.
Sunday 19th
14:00
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
All the award winners from LSFF 2020 in one programme.
15:00
Sun 19 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 2
Curator Jemma Desai presents a selection of works from British experimental filmmaker Alia Syed.
15:00
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
All the award winners from LSFF 2020 in one programme.
16:30
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Kamal Aljafari's hybrid documentary follows the story of his family after they receive an order from the Israeli government to evacuate their home.
17:00
Sun 19 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
Seven independent female filmmakers talk about their relationship to their sense of nationhood and work as documentarians.
18:00
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Soho Theatre
The crude, grotesque and political of Hong Kong artist-animator Wong Ping.
18:30
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Kamal Aljafari’s experimental work, Recollection, bears witness to the destruction, repopulation, and gentrification of Jaffa.
19:00
Sun 19 Jan 2020
ICA
Cinema 1
All the award winners from LSFF 2020 in one programme.