ICA LISTINGS

Friday 19 March - Thursday 25 March

TICKETS & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:
020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk

FILM @ THE ICA
Friday 19 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45,6.45, 8.30pm
BECKETT SHORTS
(Cinema 2) 6.15pm
MANUFACTURING CONSENT
(Cinema 2) 8.15pm

Saturday 20 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
LA DOLCE VITA (Cinema 2)
1.45pm
MANUFACTURING CONSENT
(Cinema 2) 5.15pm
BECKETT SHORTS
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Sunday 21 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
LA DOLCE VITA (Cinema 2)
1.45pm
MANUFACTURING CONSENT
(Cinema 2) 5.15pm
BECKETT SHORTS
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Monday 22 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
LA DOLCE VITA (Cinema 2)
6pm
BECKETT SHORTS
(Cinema 2) 9.15pm

Tuesday 23 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
BECKETT SHORTS
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Wednesday 24 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
YOKO ONO AROUND THE WORLD
(Cinema 2) 8.15pm

Thursday 25 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45,6.45, 8.30pm
YOKO ONO NEW YORK 70-1
(Cinema 2) 8.15pm

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 19 March - Thursday 25 March
FILM @ THE ICA
ica projects
Osama
'Miraculous' Time Out
'Impeccable ... heart-stopping ... fearless' Times
'Enchanting, sometimes terrifying ... a Taliban thriller' Dazed & Confused The first film from Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, Siddiq Barmak's stunning, Sutherland Award-winning and Golden Globe nominated Osama received a standing ovation at its Cannes Festival premiere last year. Through the lens of a Western news cameraman, street urchin Espandi leads the way to a remarkable protest by blue-veiled women whose demonstrations are swiftly swept from the streets of Kabul. Among the crowds is a young, nameless girl (Marina Golbahari) who finds herself shorn and disguised as a boy in order to work. But when she is rounded up and sent to a religious school where she is named Osama, her disguise dramatically falters and she embarks on a further odyssey through the judicial system of the Taliban. From a country that has produced less than 40 films in the past century, Afghanistan's first Academy nomination is a passionate and lyrical film full of exquisitely surreal imagery and evocative of its spiritual godfather (and uncredited producer) Mohsen Makhmalbaf's now-legendary Kandahar. Dir Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan 2003, 82 mins, subs, 12A

Cinema 2: 1-31 March
Thinking AlOUD

Noam Chomsky, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Derrida - an unrilvalled opportunity to watch and listen to thinkers as they try to make sense of the world.

19-21 Mar, 5.15pm
Manufacturing Consent
'Thoroughly engrossing' Time Out
Made to give Chomsky and his radical ideas the kind of profile routinely denied him by the US media, this epic documentary is both a wonderful introduction to the man himself, from his childhood during the Depression to his rise in linguistics and political activism, and a valuable anthology of his political campaigns and major debating skirmishes. Dir Peter Wintoninck Canada 1992, 165 mins

23, 26-31 Mar
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most distinguished and politically engaged thinkers of our time. In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Zizek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of todays so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view. Based at Ljubliana University, Slavoj Zizek's main body includes Welcome to the Desert of the Real and, most recently, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. Ben Wright, the director of the film, is an artist and film maker based in London whose work most often employs a non-subjective camera in particular locations across the globe. Here the camera is unflinchingly receptive to Slavoj Zizek standing in for the uncanny lack of an audience. Ben Wright's body of works includes Sibirskoye Kino, Blaze of Embers and Palagruza.
(Dir Ben Wright, UK, 2003, 70mins)

19-23 Mar
Beckett Shorts I
Ohio Impromptu in which Jeremy Irons plays both the reader and the listener (dir Charles Sturridge, 12 mins) + Rough For Theatre I, Milo O'Shea in the meeting of a blind and a lame man (dir Kieron J Walsh, 19 mins) + Not I, Julianne Moore's mouth delivers an extraordinary stream of thought (dir Neil Jordan, 14 mins) + Play, Alan Rickman, Juliet Stephenson and Kirstin Scott-Thomas in a searing love triangle (dir Anthony Minghella, 16 mins) + Act Without Words II, two players in a vicious circle (dir Enda Hughes, 11 mins) + A Piece of Monologue, a staged monologue, a window on the past
(dir Robin Lefevre, 19 mins)
RT 91 mins

20-23 Mar
La Dolce Vita
'Bizarre, extravagant ... absolutely riveting' Time Out
Opening with the incredible image of a helicopter lifting a statue of Christ into the skies, Fellini's masterpiece follows paparazzi playboy journalist Marcello (Mastroianni) through the spiritual, moral and intellectual disintegration of late 1950s Rome. A must-see film, seething with fabulous sequences not least of which is starlet Anita Ekberg bathing in the Trevi fountain by moonlight. Dir Federico Fellini, Italy/France 1960, 176 mins, subs

Cinema 2: 1-26 March
The Rare Films of Yoko Ono
'To look at Yoko Ono's work is to look at an artist who isn't afraid' Sam Taylor-Wood, Guardian Complementing the "Odyssey Of A Cockroach" exhibition, this season of films is a rare opportunity to see a selection of the important and compelling films of Yoko Ono, and those made with John Lennon and herself. Shown in historical sequence, they have been selected by Yoko Ono herself and range from a film such as Film No 4 (Bottom) through Rape which one critic said did "for the age of television what Franz Kafka's The Trial did for the age of totalitarianism", to Erection, a film about the construction of a hotel to Fly, showing a fly explore a woman's body. These are works that helped to reshape the grammar of film.

24 Mar 8.15pm
Around the World - 69 -71
IMAGINE 1971 (70 mins)
BED-IN 1969 (74 mins)

25 Mar, 8.15pm
N.Y. 70 - 71
FREEDOM 1970 (1min)
FLY 1970 (25 mins)
Making of Fly 1970 (approx. 30mins)
FREE TIME (TV show) 1971 (90mins)

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 19 March - Thursday 25 March
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA

1 - 21 Mar, daily 12 - 7.30pm
Expat-Art Centre

'An exhibition that is when the art centre is not'
The ICA presents Expat-Art Centre (EA C): a nomadic exhibition specifically conceived to occupy the typically transitory time and space between two exhibitions, when a gallery or an art centre is normally closed. EA C features a series of context-specific artworks by Brian Eno; Pierre Huyghe (represented France at the 2001 Venice Biennalle); Ben Kinmont (exhibited in Documenta XI, Kassel); Claude Lévêque (permanent installation at PS1, New York); Didier Marcel; Olivier Mosset; Shimabuku (Utopia Station, 2003 Venice Biennale); Dan Walsh and Ian Wilson.
Curated by Mathieu Copeland, EA C operates as an exponential curatorial model that is both self-contained and self-generative, adapting from one venue to the next: it is an exhibition that simultaneously exists in all places, at all times, with all people and yet without specific dates, spaces or locations.
Encompassing elements of painting, sculpture, installation and human intervention, EA C will be integrated throughout various locations within the ICA. Amongst others, new works will include a continuous sound work by Brian Eno, Elise Van Elise, an installation incorporating sound and light by Claude Lévêque, This isn't it an intervention by Ben Kinmont, and a work by Shimabuku which echoes the trajectory of the moon in relation to that of the exhibition.
Beginning at the ICA, EA C will subsequently travel to Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnuis, Lithuania; Krakow and Lodz, Poland; and beyond. Mon - Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs., FREE to ICA Members; Sat/Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs., FREE to ICA Members Various locations around the ICA

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 19 March - Thursday 25 March

LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA

Wed 24 Mar, 7.30pm
ATP Recordings present
BARDO POND + JACKIE O-MOTHERFUCKER + 3rd act tbc
Bardo Pond: "So utterly expansive, so ponderously beautiful" The Wire All Tomorrows Parties present seminal acts at their festivals at Camber Sands every year. Selling out two consecutive weekends this year, their record label has also stepped up a gear, and tonight they showcase a set of acts who come with a mighty strong pedigree, conjuring up epic imagery from their blissed out space rock. Bardo Pond are Black Sabbath minus the pomposity, with lots of feedback (and a woman who smokes far too much on mic duty, with a penchant for James Joyce). Jackie O-Motherfucker are the much talked about recent double album-wielding mellow merchants. ATP Recordings info / artist biogs: www.atpfestival.com/atp_recordings
Tickets & Information: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk
£9, £8 Concs, £8 ICA Members

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 19 March - Thursday 25 March
PERFORMANCE @ THE ICA
Live / Digital
Sat 20 Mar, 8pm
Jonah Brucker-Cohen presents: SimpleTEXT

A Mobile Phone Enabled Interactive Perfomance by Family Filter SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops. Messages from the audience dictate how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech and picture synthesizer creating a compelling, collaborative audiovisual performance. This is a vivid experience where you, the audience, take control of the content with startling results. SimpleTEXT was originally funded by a commission from Low-Fi, an new media arts organization based in the UK. £6, £5 Concs. £4 ICA Members Theatre (seated)

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 19 March - Thursday 25 March
DIGITAL STUDIO @ THE ICA

Until Sat 3 Apr (Daily 12 till 7.30pm)
Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Jonah Brucker-Cohen works as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland and as a PhD candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity College Dublin.
This show includes: Phonetic Faces, 2003 - an interactive mobile visual installation that allows people to both contribute their image to a shared display and collaborate with others to create a collage of images using their mobile phones. Public Desktop, 2004, adds sociability to the Mac OSX desktop background by allowing people to input text online which then becomes the desktop image. Desktop Subversibles, 2003 capitalizes on the ubiquity of our interactions with computer desktops to convey awareness of activity and a sense of shared network space among the members of an online and physical community. BumpList, 2003, a mailing list aiming to re-examine the culture and rules of online email lists Mon - Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs. FREE to ICA Members Digital Studio

Live / Digital
Sat 20 Mar, 8pm
Jonah Brucker-Cohen presents: SimpleTEXT
A Mobile Phone Enabled Interactive Performance by Family Filter SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops. Messages from the audience dictate how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech and picture synthesizer creating a compelling, collaborative audiovisual performance. This is a vivid experience where you, the audience, take control of the content with startling results. SimpleTEXT was originally funded by a commission from Low-Fi, an new media arts organization based in the UK. £6, £5 Concs. £4 ICA Members Theatre (seated)