67TH BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS 2023 EXPERIMENTA PROGRAMME OF ARTIST MOVING IMAGE WORKS

The 67th BFI London Film Festival (4 – 15 October) in partnership with American Express will this year present a powerful programme of artist films and innovative moving image works, through its Experimenta strand.

The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) celebrates the moving image in all its forms – from shorts and features to television and immersive – and the Experimenta programme invites audiences

to explore and experience powerful ways of storytelling that revolutionise and reshape ourvision of cinema.

The LFF is hosted in two major London hubs on the South Bank and in the West End, with both areas at the heart of the BFI London Film Festival experience. Galas will screen at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall while titles from the main programme will screen at a range of cinemas across the city from the BFI’s own South Bank Cinemas – BFI Southbank andBFI IMAX – to fantastic partner venues Vue West End, the Prince Charles Cinema, Curzon Soho, Curzon Mayfair. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) plays host to all the Experimenta features and shorts, with a selection of the films screening at nine partner venues across the UK.

The 2023 programme focuses on some of today’s most pressing issues, ranging from the war in Ukraine to the UK criminal justice system, Black Lives Matter protests and the rippling global effects of colonisation. Showcasing some of the most exciting emerging contemporary artists and filmmakers from across the world, the programme also provides an urgent platform to indigenous artist filmmakers from the USA, Australia, Canada and Siberia.