{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "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/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema-38494/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.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": "Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid: Underground Experiments", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "film/experimental"], "description": "A cinema programme presenting six experimental video works made between 1984 and 1997. It was created by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, two artists who have collaborated in video and media art in Ljubljana since 1982. Their works engage with identity, gender, memory, geography, technology and the politics of representation, spanning the late-socialist period, the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the emergence of post-socialist conditions. The London-based platform TLC23, initiated by Katie Shannon and Keira Fox, has been in exchange with Gržinić and presents this first London cinema screening of the collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/marina-grzinic-aina-smid-underground-experiments-74137/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/marina-grzinic-aina-smid-films-1984-1997", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9e67ab1d6e12be7cb6a6e5ee36ef1619fd035b85584b02674a7364b53187721-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£5 - £9", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "SET Film Festival is an independent, grassroots platform for contemporary, artist and archival film, returning to SET Social in Peckham for its fourth edition across a month of screenings and events. It was founded in 2023 and curated this year by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe with the wider SET FF26 team. The programme brings together four themed short film nights, a feature-length screening, a free evening of archival film and performance, a first online screening and an inaugural awards night, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with filmmakers. The festival also supports UK-based filmmakers through its 2026 Accelerator Programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-38495/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/804615857f21e4b55712a912e9f4af348a1f68ec72a3388e26e3a7cd06d6c1a7-2000.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"}, {"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": "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": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mundurukuyu – The Forest of the Fish Women", "start": "2026-11-15T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "society/indigenous"], "description": "An afternoon event from the Native Spirit Film Festival, guest-curated by Zain Gibson, combining short experimental films with a writing activation and a feature screening. It gathers up to 40 minutes of experimental shorts by Indigenous filmmakers exploring ancestry and identity, introduced before the audience takes part in a writing response. These shorts come from Brazil, Colombia, Canada and Greenland, and look at how their makers maintain traditions, practices and belief systems looking to the future. They are followed by the feature film MUNDURUKUYÜ – The Forest Of The Fish Women, in which three women of the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective take up the camera as a weapon in defence of their ancestry, preserving and transmitting their Munduruku mythology of the world's origins, when humans transformed into forests, plants and animals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mundurukuyu-the-forest-of-the-fish-women-80665/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/nsff2026-mundurukuy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16eec771595025ed40693679b7d31dae8fe0c700ef7498fe2fdae88b97d9bb26-2000.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. 1", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "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": "NFF 2026 Shorts: The Mix Tape Vol. 1 is a shorts screening presented as part of Norwich Film Festival 2026, shown at Picturehouse Central. The collection asks whether memory has a name or is a place, featuring recollections of lands left behind, relationships lost, languages displaced and dances that used to be. It remembers what was left behind, retracing the imprints of the past and revealing how they shape who we've become. The screening carries an 18 certificate and runs 90 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-the-mix-tape-vol-1-41875/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/001/HO00018797/nff-2026-shorts-the-recollection-collection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8aefdda7b65bb534c42b9dceff9155f27f590af23d80dbf2dd81e69d376410a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Native Spirit Film Festival: Gods & Devils: Postindian Survivance", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A shorts programme of films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A. Kalaallisut artist Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller presents his Super 8 visual poetry, followed by nine Turtle Island films including a Louis Riel historical drama, animated spray-painted murals, Naskapi vampirism, and Cree astronomer 'Wilfred Buck's Star Stories'. Native Spirit is the UK's first and longest-running independent film festival promoting Native filmmakers, artists, narrative and visual sovereignty, and languages worldwide, founded by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil. Some films contain themes of colonial violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/native-spirit-film-festival-gods-devils-postindian-survivanc-80664/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d5f670e6751ecfe98f0767dd4701f6639d05735fc78719482fabcece9275379-2000.webp"}]}