Hyde Park Art Club is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition, Is This What We Have Left? featuring never shown and new works by artists Kate O’Neill, Marta Dyczkowska and James Thompson.
Show opens 19 September 2024 at our home in Hyde Park Book Club and focused on the current dialogues we are having as creatives around space.
Shifting from art film to documentary, Spell Reel re-animates the historic colonial archive to construct considered “cine-kinships” between past and present.
This event is a screening of two films, reflecting the work of Luta Ca Caba Inda (The Struggle is not Over Yet), an ongoing, experimental arts project, embarked on by a cine-collective involving artist Filipa César, and filmmakers, Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes, that seeks to digitise and re-animate the nearly destroyed archive of anti-colonial cinema shot in Guinea-Bissau during 1970s.
An evening celebrating women in surrealist silent film, performed with live music and discussion by Hoolan Ensemble
Hoolan Ensemble is a recently formed collective of musicians and composers dedicated to performing innovative and unusual contemporary music, and to collaborating with other art forms. Join them for an electrifying evening of live music and film inspired by the forgotten artistic achievements of women in early cinema.
This smash road trip from Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Gravity) is a pivotal title in contemporary Mexican cinema.
Featuring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in what is arguably their breakout roles, Y tu mamá también follows a pair of horny teenagers from Mexico City from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman (Maribel Verdú) they meet at a wedding.
Based on the books by Louise Rennison (and directed by Bend it Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha), Angus Thongs follows 'perfect nutter' Georgia as she keeps a diary of the trials and tribulations of being a mid 2000s British teen.
A year after his passing, we’re proud to present Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last performance: an intimate and moving concert film featuring just him and his piano.
On 28 March 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away. In the years before his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform, but in late 2022 he gave the world one final performance – this intimate concert film, movingly directed by his son.
Charles Burnett’s heart-warming romantic comedy sees two great actors pair off against each other with hilarious results.
A fable of King Mani Kongo's quest to find his daughter in Belgium, challenging his identity and navigating exploitation, presented by the Congolese Community of Leeds.
The Congolese Community of Leeds is excited to invite you to a special event featuring the acclaimed film Pièces d'Identités. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity for us to come together, enjoy a thought-provoking film, and engage in meaningful discussions about identity and belonging.
A Cuban cinematic masterpiece directed by Humberto Solás, depicting the lives of three women named Lucia across different historical periods.
One of the most beloved and quotable films of all time, starring the incomparable Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
World War II, Morocco: a viper’s nest of corrupt police, spies, fleeing émigrés, gamblers and drinkers. It’s the perfect place for jaded American expatriate nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to hide out. Rick’s Cafe is the gathering place for the good, the bad and the ugly, but he doesn’t care, as long as they spend their money.