{"title": "Jenny Baines – Action Films", "start": "2026-11-17T20:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "An evening of short 16mm films by artist Jenny Baines, whose works are built around her performances to camera. She sets herself tasks – scaling a lamp post, hula-hooping, swimming against a current – that must play out in the time it takes her clockwork camera's spring to wind down and the film to run out, turning each film into a kind of competition. The programme spans works from 2007 to 2025, including double-projection pieces, and is often comedic in its timing. Jenny Baines will be present to introduce and discuss her work in a Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jenny-baines-action-films-35348/", "official_url": "https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/experimental-cinema/jenny-baines", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T20:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Scream Station Festival: Experimental Film Section", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "The Experimental Film Section is a screening of ten short films ranging from one to 22 minutes, part of Screamstation Fest at the Close-Up Film Centre. The festival is curated and organised by Zhel Vukicevic and Kerry Baldry, and this programme gathers works that approach cinema as a space for experimentation with image, sound, duration, movement and perception. It presents radical experiments in perception, structure and audiovisual language by filmmakers and artists pushing at the boundaries of the moving image, with films by AWAI and Eriko Muraki, Paulo Coqueiro, Anne Colvin, Simon Payne, Yuri Kuzin, Susan Kouguell, Marty St James, Rastko Novakovic, Rutger Wolfson and Glitschen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/scream-station-festival-experimental-film-section-35344/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1325c01ec10a044a9b53868c9c0b189deac08ddfbd996587f56e3a90563765cb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Second Daughter: She Was Never One Body pt II", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Eastway Baths", "address": "80 Eastway, E9 5JH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film-video", "film/short-film"], "description": "An art exhibition with a short film screening, presented by Second Daughter at Eastway Baths. The works and films explore the body as a collective swarm, with pieces by Karolina Ursala Urbaniak, Keyannah Isaacs, Lottie Stephens, Holly Lou Jones, Eleanor Cox, Georgia Scholes and Kai Thaís, and films including Cailleach, Uproot, Dancing with Broken Feet, Choir of Catharsis and Know That As I Hex You, I Hug You. Film curation is by Lucy Chappell and artwork curation by Holly Lou Jones and Noda Lichen. Second Daughter celebrates dark cinema, art and performance exploring women's stories, made by anyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-daughter-she-was-never-one-body-pt-ii-60442/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b729ec8bc12fc075cd3fe063f334b03ee0f2cdcd811785077d4da46481f84c6c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Film screenings with live improvised soundtrack | Darius Battiwalla", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "place": "Christ Church Spitalfields", "address": "Commercial Street, E1 6LY London", "price": "", "price_from": "11.55", "price_to": "16.96", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Film screenings of Sherlock Jr. and two Charlie Chaplin shorts with live improvised soundtrack. Darius Battiwalla plays an instrument like no other in the world alongside the films.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-screenings-with-live-improvised-soundtrack-darius-batti-45739/", "official_url": "https://spitalfields.church/upcomingevents/pgclfjfjl96eadkr7lmmeakqklj64q-5kh8r", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91d5ad1a2e6836483ee2e9c966b9189fcfaa1cb1bff92a347e489df9458e465f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026: Women In Film - Shorts + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "£8 / £6", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A screening of a selection of short films directed by women, spanning a diverse range of genres, styles and themes. It is presented as part of Norwich Film Festival 2026. After the films, selected filmmakers join a panel and Q&A. No adverts or trailers precede the screening, so arrive by the advertised start time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-women-in-film-shorts-qa-41893/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/84361ec343891e7fa078d74135a1e79ccc78fec1230c00ee3be9172dd2c1acad-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Transforming Films: 2009–26 EXTENDED - now open until the end of January 2027", "start": "2026-05-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rob and Nick Carter", "address": "Bathurst Street 5A, W2 2SD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "An extended art exhibition of moving paintings, open until the end of January 2027. Artists Rob and Nick Carter translate static masterpieces into films, from Monet's London and Kandinsky's abstraction to Anna Ancher's interiors. This new cycle uses human-guided AI as a 'digital brush', curated frame by frame in a philosophy of slow looking.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transforming-films-200926-extended-now-open-until-the-end-of-99431/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2db7585c435cce36277c90e9f9398ed4c5ac57a2a8c7570639a7b4c00b0c57cb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #2: Plot Twist", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "comedy"], "description": "An evening of five short films exploring the surreal, the silly and the unexpected, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Ellie Dobbs. It is Night #2: Plot Twist of SET Film Festival 2026, an independent, grassroots festival for contemporary, artist and archival film run by London-based arts organisation SET. The films play with performance and improvisation, finding humour where the plot unravels and nothing goes to plan: a cigarette-break reverie, best friends on a shoplifting spree, a fishing trip-cum-stag do, a conversation in bed and an extra in a replica of the American Museum of Natural History. The festival was founded in 2023 and is curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist-38497/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aaa63208465b67b4e2d2096ddd2499cbcc0ff1f7fa15c3fcb16a5feecd554a53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: Award Winners Showcase", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A showcase of award-winning short films presented as part of the NFF 2026 shorts programme. The screening takes place at Picturehouse Central in London. The programme runs 120 minutes and carries an 18 age rating.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-award-winners-showcase-37926/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/122d1d6c7fbc8e6910062a1b61c58f768643e5f0d1a2ed670878401d156bdaec-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. The exhibition contains references to and images of blood, death, and psychological distress and is not suitable for visitors aged 12 and under.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure-38680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb0db8af13099015f49f783e6b33cfc73d7fdf7b2013833c5907ac0dd735deb1-600.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: Right Here, Right Now", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A shorts programme titled 'NFF 2026 Shorts: Right Here, Right Now', running about 90 minutes and certificate 18. It is a brand new strand presented as part of Norwich Film Festival 2026. The fragile modern world and our lives within it are under focus, with humorous explorations of the gig economy, our relationship with technology, and political satire. The screening takes a look at what is going on in the world, right here and right now.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-right-here-right-now-41895/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/001/HO00018794/nff-2026-shorts-right-here-right-now", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed68c242c8c555c7bb913795c4884a2b42c379e4f29d4acb66e67ce9850117b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: The Mix Tape Vol. 3", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "NFF 2026 Shorts: The Mix Tape Vol. 3 is a programme of short films screening at Picturehouse Central. It is part of the Norwich Film Festival 2026 and brings together 18 short films with a total running time of 90 minutes. The screening offers audiences a varied mix of short-form filmmaking in a single session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-the-mix-tape-vol-3-37928/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d104b3dd2c3052e5b1c8fc4338d1980c332a1af9dc403672db5a58fc4664d1e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: British Mix", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A programme of short films shown under the title NFF 2026 Shorts: British Mix. The source gives no details on who is behind it or what it is about.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-british-mix-37927/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/849961a9a8920ac71186f54a67b14f651e92134c58e6510a4ef75c9080c6a1dd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Oscillations: live scored film night", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "From £11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "music/experimental"], "description": "Oscillations: live scored film night is an evening of short films shown with live musical scores at ANNEX. Curators a nightingale, withgauze and Noelle Radzewicz will perform to short films submitted to Knots' ongoing open call, which invites works of up to 15 minutes on collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots' noise nights invite artists to encounter one another through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, an ethos from which the Oscillations exhibition stems. One ticket covers three days of launch events, panels, workshops and performances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oscillations-live-scored-film-night-70584/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/oscillations-live-scored-film-night-annex-the-koppel-project-7-november", "image": "https://noky.io/images/76b1e8a1ff2f1110433245f0b1a82a1178efa620ff8d89a7f68686058485b30e-2000.webp"}]}