IMA Screenings

Over the last fifty years, New York film artist KenJacobs has made a massive contribution to experimental film and expanded-cinema performance. He is known for his pioneering two-hour 1969 structuralist film Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son, which probes, deconstructs, and reorganises a D….

A rare screening of Ken Jacobs’s 1969 structuralist masterpiece, Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son. 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project between OtherFilm and IMA.

Seminal films from 1960 to 1972 by an unsung pioneer of British experimental film. “Keen’s films are high-voltage visual shocks, eruptions of pulp imagery, eroticism, violence, language games, uncensored imagination and sheer giddy exuberance. His early films are love-letters to…

Jean Genet’s 1950 gay prison romance A Song of Love and Alain Resnais’s 1955 holocaust documentary Night and Fog on 16mm film. Prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project between OtherFilm and IMA.

Longing looks on film from Daniel McKewen, Fetus Productions, Tim Johnson, David Noonan, AES+F, Robin Hely, and others.

Conrad Rooks’s rarely seen, semi-autobiographical, counter-culture drug odyssey Chappaqua (1966), featuring Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Moondog, and The Fugs. A joint project with OtherFilm.

Heavy visions of annihilation and ascension featuring Robert Nelson, Ron Rice and Ira Cohen.

Legendary Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Kubelka is an extremist, yet he argues that he ‘never wanted to be radical, only consistent, like a scientist working toward his results’. Jonas Mekas said, ‘Kubelka’s cinema is like a piece of crystal, or some other…

Luke Fowler’s 2006 documentary Pilgrimage from Scattered Points addresses the English composer Cornelius Cardew, who formed Scratch Orchestra with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1968. Their draft constitution, published in The Musical Times in June 1969, set out the…