Listen With Your Eyes is an ongoing series of screenings for children of all ages and their grown-up companions. It’s a space where curious minds and open hearts can come together to drift through the worlds of experimental cinema. 

For this February’s programme, we present a selection of landscape films—landscapes in the widest, wildest sense. These works are closely attuned to the environment, resonating with notes both poetic and worldly; we hope they will carry you through cinematic places and spaces that feel at once familiar, enchanted, and wonderfully unexpected.

Ticket holders are welcome to join us early for a free 16mm direct animation activity from 10am to 11am. 

Please note that this is a relaxed screening, open to children of all ages.

Programme

Bird, dir. Margaret Salmon, UK 2016, 6 mins
A six-minute playful exploration of natural wonder inspired by Mary Field’s pioneering series Secrets of Nature (1922–33).

Faktura, dir. Corin Sworn, Canada/Germany 2008, 4 mins
Faktura invites us to glimpse one of Berlin’s adventure playgrounds—a small, spirited terrain where worlds of play and work are collaboratively constructed and dismantled in real time.

And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree, dir. Sriwhana Spong, New Zealand 2022, 5 mins
Spong’s poetic voice leads us into a shimmering, meditative realm where a swarm of insects moves like quiet messengers. These tiny beings feel both cosmic in their mystery and intimately bound to our inner worlds.

Slow Shift, dir. Shambhavi Kaul, India/USA 2023, 9 mins
A portrait of Hampi, the site of a 14th-century city in central India. Amidst the ruins, a population of langur monkeys—who have come to inhabit the World Heritage site—clambers across the ancient rock formations.

Les Tournesol, dir. Rose Lowder, 1983, France, 3 mins
Les Tournesol consists of stationary, frame-by-frame shots of a sunflower field in full bloom, with each image focusing on a different pattern of movement—from fluttering petals and wind-bent stems to pollinating bees and shifting cloud shadows.

All My Life, dir. Bruce Baillie, USA 1966, 3 mins
A single shot pans slowly along a picket fence covered in wild red roses as Ella Fitzgerald’s debut single All My Life plays on the soundtrack. 

Sundial, dir. William Raban, UK 1992, 1 min
In William Raban’s Sundial, the towering façade of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf looms over London’s post-industrial East End.