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September 2026

Wednesday, 2 September

Daily Programme

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.

Films

I Want Your Sex

Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex tells the story of Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a kind-hearted if unmotivated twentysomething whose fantasies quickly come true when he lands a job with renowned artist and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde).

Films

Kiki's Delivery Service

A beloved coming-of-age story from Studio Ghibli and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, about a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt.

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

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is
handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Films

Songs of Forgotten Trees

Songs of Forgotten Trees, for which Anuparna Roy won the Orizzonti Best Director award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

Talks & Events

BELIEF SYSTEMS
Maite de Orbe × OPerformancef

Maite de Orbe and OPerformancef present the second edition of BELIEF SYSTEMS, a monthly work-in-progress performance series in the ICA Studio.

Films

UK PREMIERE
The Visitor

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

Exhibitions

No Island Is an Elsewhere

Selected in dialogue with Elisa Giardina Papa’s She Flickered In and Out of History, the artists’ films assembled in 'No Island Is an Elsewhere' consider how territories, their histories, and borders are drawn, archived, and ultimately contested. Together, the films ask us to encounter the island not as an elsewhere to be discovered and conquered, but as a place from which those very gestures might be questioned.

Live

Model/Actriz seek to channel raw emotions into striking new forms. The band’s surface glamor is supported by nerves of steel, leveraging their focus into moments of wild abandon. Don't miss a rare opportunity to see one of the most revered live acts of the moment in an intimate setting.

Films

Pedro Almodóvar's 1986 erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder.