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August 2026

Wednesday, 5 August

Daily Programme

Live

HTRK [‘hate rock'], the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, have an uncanny ability to elevate musical mood to a singular, smouldering supremacy. Their songs are often coded as fantasies, venturing deeper into the heady expanses of dub dream and memory.

Films

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

Films

Cinema and State
Films by Nagisa Ōshima

Death By Hanging + Yunbogi's Diary

At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Ōshima's macabre farce about a man who survives his execution and throws the judiciary system into chaos, is a searing indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.