Institute of Contemporary Arts
Exhibitions
12:00 PM
3 October 2018 – 13 January 2019
Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
The first solo exhibition in a major UK institution, featuring a new moving-image commission 
Films
12:00 PM
11 – 20 January
London Short Film Festival 2019
LSFF returns to the ICA for its 16th year, with another radical and reactive programme of short films from across the globe.
Films
6:30 PM
Thu, 13 December
Artists’ Film Club
Laura O’Neill
A selection of new and recent work by Laura O’Neill whose CGI worlds are populated by bulbous characters and unknown creatures.
Films
7:45 PM
Tue, 11 December
Postcards from London
Leaving Essex for London and in search of stimulation, Jim goes from penniless to escort and artist’s muse.
Films
8:45 PM
Tue, 11 December
The Wild Pear Tree
A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.
Films
9:30 PM
Tue, 11 December
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winning film depicts a family reliant on theft for survival.
Films
12:30 PM
Wed, 12 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
1:55 PM
Wed, 12 December
Meteors
Online video, archival footage, fact and fiction merge in Turkish filmmaker Gürcan Keltek’s document of a military campaign hidden by media blackout.
Films
3:40 PM
Wed, 12 December
Nae Pasaran
The true story of Scottish factory workers' protest against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Films
4:00 PM
Wed, 12 December
Evelyn
A raw, unfiltered document of a family attempting to navigate collective trauma.
Films
5:35 PM
Wed, 12 December
The Price of Everything
A timely study of the contemporary art world, greed and the new global elite.
Films
6:00 PM
Wed, 12 December
Shoplifters
Talks & Learning
6:30 PM
Wed, 12 December
Future of the Zone
A symposium on the spatial, temporal, and cinematic typology of the ‘Zone’ convenes speakers Geocinema, Metahaven, Jussi Parikka, Ippolito Pestellini and Susan Schuppli.
Films
7:40 PM
Wed, 12 December
Postcards from London
Films
8:20 PM
Wed, 12 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
9:25 PM
Wed, 12 December
Climax
A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.
Films
12:10 PM
Thu, 13 December
Mug
A young man’s face transplant exposes the worst of a small Polish town.
Films
1:00 PM
Thu, 13 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
2:00 PM
Thu, 13 December
Meteors
Films
3:45 PM
Thu, 13 December
The Price of Everything
Films
4:30 PM
Thu, 13 December
Climax
Films
5:50 PM
Thu, 13 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
8:30 PM
Thu, 13 December
Invention for Destruction + introduction by John Stevenson
A homage to Jules Verne by visionary Czech filmmaker and innovator of 20th Century fantasy cinema Karel Zeman.
Films
9:15 PM
Thu, 13 December
Shoplifters
Films
1:00 PM
Fri, 14 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
In Alexei German’s satire, something monumental is happening in 1950s Moscow but no one knows precisely what.
Films
2:00 PM
Fri, 14 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.
Films
3:50 PM
Fri, 14 December
Meteors
Films
5:35 PM
Fri, 14 December
Nae Pasaran
Films
6:15 PM
Fri, 14 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Talks & Learning
7:00 PM
Fri, 14 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
ICA Public Advisors offer guided tours of the current exhibition.
Films
7:30 PM
Fri, 14 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Live
9:00 PM
Fri, 14 December
Congregation: Club Night
Sound artist and DJ Ain Bailey gathers her dearest sonic allies for a night of back-to-back battle.
Films
9:45 PM
Fri, 14 December
Shoplifters
Live
11:30 AM
Sat, 15 December
Congregation: Sonic Round Table
Artists, writers and organisers join Ain Bailey to share the sounds and tracks that have shaped them.
Films
12:10 PM
Sat, 15 December
Mirai
The first anime ever to premiere at Cannes, director Mamoru Hosoda renders childhood with insight and ingenuity.
Films
12:20 PM
Sat, 15 December
Meteors
Films
2:00 PM
Sat, 15 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
2:10 PM
Sat, 15 December
The Last Movie
Actor and director Dennis Hopper’s seldom-seen follow-up to Easy Rider takes on Hollywood artifice.
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Sat, 15 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Films
4:50 PM
Sat, 15 December
The Image Book
Jean-Luc Godard’s visually explosive new work on the human capacity for horror.
Films
6:15 PM
Sat, 15 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
7:00 PM
Sat, 15 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
9:45 PM
Sat, 15 December
Shoplifters
Films
12:15 PM
Sun, 16 December
Mirai
Films
12:30 PM
Sun, 16 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
2:15 PM
Sun, 16 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Sun, 16 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Films
4:00 PM
Sun, 16 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Films
6:30 PM
Sun, 16 December
Shoplifters
Films
6:50 PM
Sun, 16 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
8:55 PM
Sun, 16 December
The Last Movie
Films
2:10 PM
Tue, 18 December
Meteors
Films
2:15 PM
Tue, 18 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
4:00 PM
Tue, 18 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Films
6:25 PM
Tue, 18 December
PREVIEW 1985
After a three-year absence, New York transplant Adrian returns to Texas aching with truths he longs to share.
Films
6:45 PM
Tue, 18 December
Nae Pasaran
Films
8:20 PM
Tue, 18 December
Shoplifters
Films
8:40 PM
Tue, 18 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
2:00 PM
Wed, 19 December
The Last Movie
Films
2:05 PM
Wed, 19 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
4:30 PM
Wed, 19 December
Shoplifters
Films
6:15 PM
Wed, 19 December
The Wild Pear Tree
Films
7:00 PM
Wed, 19 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
9:45 PM
Wed, 19 December
Climax
Films
9:45 PM
Wed, 19 December
The Last Movie
Films
2:00 PM
Thu, 20 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Films
2:15 PM
Thu, 20 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
5:00 PM
Thu, 20 December
The Image Book
Films
6:30 PM
Thu, 20 December
Shoplifters
Films
7:00 PM
Thu, 20 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
Films
8:55 PM
Thu, 20 December
1985
After a three-year absence, New York transplant Adrian returns to Texas aching with truths he longs to share.
Films
4:30 PM
Fri, 21 December
Becoming Animal
Sensuous and immersive, this audiovisual essay is both a philosophical inquiry and an invitation to inhabit our animal bodies.
Films
9:20 PM
Fri, 21 December
1985
Films
2:15 PM
Sat, 22 December
The Last Movie
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Sat, 22 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Films
4:30 PM
Sat, 22 December
Becoming Animal
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Sun, 23 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Films
4:00 PM
Sun, 23 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Films
8:55 PM
Sun, 23 December
The Last Movie
Films
9:30 PM
Sun, 23 December
1985
Talks & Learning
7:00 PM
Fri, 28 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Sat, 29 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Sun, 30 December
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Talks & Learning
7:00 PM
Thu, 4 January
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Talks & Learning
3:00 PM
Fri, 5 January
Gallery Tours of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY
Live
7:30 PM
Thu, 18 January
Congregation: Performance
Sound artist and DJ Ain Bailey presents a performance of new work with Jockel Liess.
Films
12:00 PM
11 – 20 January
London Short Film Festival 2019
LSFF returns to the ICA for its 16th year, with another radical and reactive programme of short films from across the globe.
6:30 PM
Thu, 13 December
Artists’ Film Club
Laura O’Neill
A selection of new and recent work by Laura O’Neill whose CGI worlds are populated by bulbous characters and unknown creatures.
7:45 PM
Tue, 11 December
Postcards from London
Leaving Essex for London and in search of stimulation, Jim goes from penniless to escort and artist’s muse.
8:45 PM
Tue, 11 December
The Wild Pear Tree
A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.
9:30 PM
Tue, 11 December
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winning film depicts a family reliant on theft for survival.
12:30 PM
Wed, 12 December
The Wild Pear Tree
1:55 PM
Wed, 12 December
Meteors
Online video, archival footage, fact and fiction merge in Turkish filmmaker Gürcan Keltek’s document of a military campaign hidden by media blackout.
3:40 PM
Wed, 12 December
Nae Pasaran
The true story of Scottish factory workers' protest against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
4:00 PM
Wed, 12 December
Evelyn
A raw, unfiltered document of a family attempting to navigate collective trauma.
5:35 PM
Wed, 12 December
The Price of Everything
A timely study of the contemporary art world, greed and the new global elite.
6:00 PM
Wed, 12 December
Shoplifters
7:40 PM
Wed, 12 December
Postcards from London
8:20 PM
Wed, 12 December
The Wild Pear Tree
9:25 PM
Wed, 12 December
Climax
A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.
12:10 PM
Thu, 13 December
Mug
A young man’s face transplant exposes the worst of a small Polish town.
1:00 PM
Thu, 13 December
The Wild Pear Tree
2:00 PM
Thu, 13 December
Meteors
3:45 PM
Thu, 13 December
The Price of Everything
4:30 PM
Thu, 13 December
Climax
5:50 PM
Thu, 13 December
The Wild Pear Tree
8:30 PM
Thu, 13 December
Invention for Destruction + introduction by John Stevenson
A homage to Jules Verne by visionary Czech filmmaker and innovator of 20th Century fantasy cinema Karel Zeman.
9:15 PM
Thu, 13 December
Shoplifters
1:00 PM
Fri, 14 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
In Alexei German’s satire, something monumental is happening in 1950s Moscow but no one knows precisely what.
2:00 PM
Fri, 14 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.
3:50 PM
Fri, 14 December
Meteors
5:35 PM
Fri, 14 December
Nae Pasaran
6:15 PM
Fri, 14 December
The Wild Pear Tree
7:30 PM
Fri, 14 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
9:45 PM
Fri, 14 December
Shoplifters
12:10 PM
Sat, 15 December
Mirai
The first anime ever to premiere at Cannes, director Mamoru Hosoda renders childhood with insight and ingenuity.
12:20 PM
Sat, 15 December
Meteors
2:00 PM
Sat, 15 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
2:10 PM
Sat, 15 December
The Last Movie
Actor and director Dennis Hopper’s seldom-seen follow-up to Easy Rider takes on Hollywood artifice.
4:50 PM
Sat, 15 December
The Image Book
Jean-Luc Godard’s visually explosive new work on the human capacity for horror.
6:15 PM
Sat, 15 December
The Wild Pear Tree
7:00 PM
Sat, 15 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
9:45 PM
Sat, 15 December
Shoplifters
12:15 PM
Sun, 16 December
Mirai
12:30 PM
Sun, 16 December
The Wild Pear Tree
2:15 PM
Sun, 16 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
4:00 PM
Sun, 16 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
6:30 PM
Sun, 16 December
Shoplifters
6:50 PM
Sun, 16 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
8:55 PM
Sun, 16 December
The Last Movie
2:10 PM
Tue, 18 December
Meteors
2:15 PM
Tue, 18 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
4:00 PM
Tue, 18 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
6:25 PM
Tue, 18 December
PREVIEW 1985
After a three-year absence, New York transplant Adrian returns to Texas aching with truths he longs to share.
6:45 PM
Tue, 18 December
Nae Pasaran
8:20 PM
Tue, 18 December
Shoplifters
8:40 PM
Tue, 18 December
The Wild Pear Tree
2:00 PM
Wed, 19 December
The Last Movie
2:05 PM
Wed, 19 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
4:30 PM
Wed, 19 December
Shoplifters
6:15 PM
Wed, 19 December
The Wild Pear Tree
7:00 PM
Wed, 19 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
9:45 PM
Wed, 19 December
Climax
9:45 PM
Wed, 19 December
The Last Movie
2:00 PM
Thu, 20 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
2:15 PM
Thu, 20 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
5:00 PM
Thu, 20 December
The Image Book
6:30 PM
Thu, 20 December
Shoplifters
7:00 PM
Thu, 20 December
An Elephant Sitting Still
8:55 PM
Thu, 20 December
1985
After a three-year absence, New York transplant Adrian returns to Texas aching with truths he longs to share.
4:30 PM
Fri, 21 December
Becoming Animal
Sensuous and immersive, this audiovisual essay is both a philosophical inquiry and an invitation to inhabit our animal bodies.
9:20 PM
Fri, 21 December
1985
2:15 PM
Sat, 22 December
The Last Movie
4:30 PM
Sat, 22 December
Becoming Animal
4:00 PM
Sun, 23 December
Khrustalyov, My Car!
8:55 PM
Sun, 23 December
The Last Movie
9:30 PM
Sun, 23 December
1985