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 between 10am and 11am.
Please note that this is a relaxed screening, open to children of all ages.
Programme:
All My Life
Bruce Baillie I 1966 I USA I 3 mins I 16mm
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.
Faktura
Corin Sworn I 2008 I Canada/Germany I 4 mins I Digital
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
Sriwhana Spong I New Zealand I 2022 I 5 mins I Digital
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.
Bird
Margaret Salmon I 2016 I UK I 6 mins I Digital
A six-minute playful exploration of natural wonder inspired by Mary Field’s pioneering series Secrets of Nature (1922–33).
Slow Shift
Shambhavi Kaul I 2023 I India I USA I 9 mins I Digital
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
Rose Lowder I 1983 I France I 3 mins I 16mm
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.
Sundial
William Raban I 1992 I UK I 1 min I Digital
In William Raban’s Sundial, the towering façade of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf looms over London’s post-industrial East End.
Listen with your Eyes is an ongoing series of screenings organised by Open City Documentary Festival and co-programmed by Hyun Jin Cho & Oliver Wright.
Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london
