Read, Watch & Listen

For our August Family Film Club workshop, artist and illustrator Ivonne Vargas shows us how to make an interactive and animal-inspired mobile and thaumatrope.

'The Proposal' director Jill Magid joins us for a live ScreenTalk.Hosted by Ines Weizman, Director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning.

Oliver Cross presents #NotGoingOut, a video which looks at his experience as a young disabled neuro-divergent artist during lockdown.

This week we're delving into our archive looking back to October 2017, and 'Different Trains 1947'. This was a fascinating project which featured composer Jack Barnett from These New Puritans and producer Sandunes amongst other key performers and filmmakers.

Get the whole family involved in 'Masculinities' with our interactive exercises exploring the themes of the exhibition. 

What does it mean to be real online? We invited two Young Barbican artists to bring together a group to explore this question in an online multidisciplinary project.

A season dedicated to first person films exploring interior states, gained fresh perspective in lockdown when so many of us found ourselves in our domestic spaces, looking inwards. 

'José' director, Li Cheng and actor Enrique Salanic, join us for a live ScreenTalk, hosted by Barbican curator, Alex Davidson.

In an archive interview, Ben Eshmade talks to Robert Henke about his audiovisual project Lumiere with interviews from July 2014 and February 2017.

To mark our long-time work and partnership with Doc’n Roll Film Festival, we asked festival programmer, Colm Forde, to select five of his favourite music docs and concert films available to watch online.

With no big budgets to fall back on, independent organisations got creative. We look at some of the independent film festivals behind this year's Leytonstone Loves Film festival. 

In an archive interview from March 2016, Ben Eshmade speaks to composer George Benjamin and counter tenor Iestyn Davies, just before the premiere of the then new work, Dream of the Song.