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  • SEASON 11
    Forbidden Colour

    Once, the transmission of feeling in colour film was dependent on the fizzing, fickle interaction of chemicals. Different palettes created by chromatic processes in the lab offered different palettes, and consequently, different envisionings of the world. In a digital age, colour is no less an important weapon in the filmmaker’s arsenal, and dependent still – though differently – on the auspices of technology. These kaleidoscopic films by visionaries Bergman, Bidgood, Imruh, Greenaway, Herzog, Pasolini, Ozu, Jarman and Rosso represent the most enchanting, troubling and shocking uses of colour in cinematic history, and demonstrate that colour is at once a tool and a vibrant character in the technological conjuring of cinema’s most lurid dreams.

  • Equinox Flower

    Yasujirō Ozu | 1958

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    Equinox Flower

    Yasujirō Ozu | 1958

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    A charming exploration of courtship and unspoken desire in bourgeois Japan, Yasujirō Ozu’s first colour film Equinox Flower is also his return to comedy after two decades of serious dramas. Telling the tale of Hirayama, a wealthy and respected Tokyo businessman who stubbornly refuses to accept his daughter’s choice of husband, Ozu paints in miniature a country’s changing cultural tides. An intimate family story with a certain melancholy woven through even the cheeriest scenes, Equinox Flower stands alongside Ozu’s finest work. 

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  • Pink Narcissus

    James Bidgood | 1971

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    Pink Narcissus

    James Bidgood | 1971

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    A male sex worker navigates his fantasies of bikers, matadors and harem leaders in this hallucinogenic classic of queer cinema. Pink Narcissus was filmed over seven years by James Bidgood, who built the film’s elaborate sets in his small Hell’s Kitchen apartment, and who released the film anonymously after a squabble with his financier. Gloriously lavish, Pink Narcissus was a revolution in DIY filmmaking and a poignant document of the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS window in gay culture.

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  • Mark of the Hand

    Imruh Bakari | 1987

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    Mark of the Hand

    Imruh Bakari | 1987

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    A sensitive portrait of luminary Guyanaese artist Aubrey Williams, Mark of the Hand sees Williams returning to his birthplace of Georgetown after a decades-long sojourn in the UK. Meeting once again with the Warao Indians who heavily influenced Williams’ abstract expressionist canvases, he muses on a career spent in search of truth. The result is a lilting study on otherness, technology and the Warao concept of timehri, the titular “mark of the hand”, that stamps the masterpieces of art.

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  • An Actor's Revenge

    Kon Ichikawa | 1963

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    An Actor's Revenge

    Kon Ichikawa | 1963

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    A remake of the 1935 film of the same name, An Actor’s Revenge is an extraordinary fusion of kabuki theatre and pop art. Kazuo Hasegawa, in his 300th role, is double cast as a local thief and an actor whose parents were driven to suicide by a trio of thugs, and who now seeks revenge. The idioms of kabuki theatre – melodrama, androgyny, elaborate makeup and wigs – are interrogated in Kon Ichikawa’s darkly amusing thriller, whose nagging queer subtext and unconventional Brechtian staging allow for deeper considerations of the precarity of the acting profession.

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  • Gallivant

    Andrew Kotting | 1996

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    Gallivant

    Andrew Kotting | 1996

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    In Gallivant, director Andrew Kotting takes three generations of his family, including his 85-year-old grandmother and his disabled daughter Eden on a madcap, psychogeographic romp across Britain’s coastlines. Interweaving Super 8 documentary footage, polyphonic narration, and techniques from early cinema, the film's formal daring is balanced by its warm heart and utter lack of pretension. A road movie like no other, Gallivant is an ebullient celebration of the mundane and a fascinating enquiry into the bizarre land we call home.

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  • Fata Morgana

    Werner Herzog | 1971

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    Fata Morgana

    Werner Herzog | 1971

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    A mesmerising journey through the Sahel and Sahara deserts, Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana is the video essay as pure cinema, a floating odyssey into the sublime. In his first departure from fictional storytelling, the film establishes motifs that would go on to define Herzog’s career: lizards, blazing fires and the profoundly destructive impact of humans on their environments. With brisk narration from Lotte Eisener and a soundtrack including Leonard Cohen, the alien landscapes of Fata Morgana elucidate the fundamental strangeness of life on Earth.

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  • Dreams that Money Can Buy

    Hans Richter | 1947

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    Dreams that Money Can Buy

    Hans Richter | 1947

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    Dancing mannequins, wire circus figures, a retelling of the myth of Narcissus with sentient furniture: Dreams that Money Can Buy is a Dadaist delight. An anthology film in seven parts, each directed by a different avant-garde visionary including Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst and Alexander Calder, the film stars Jack Bittner as a literal average Joe who has gained the ability to sell dreams. A veritable who’s who of the post-war art landscape, Dreams that Money Can Buy is an exhilarating exploration into the richness of our subconscious landscapes.

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SEASON 10
Lives of the Saints

There can be no sainthood without struggle, and for Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson, Margaret Tait, Carl Th. Dreyer, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Christopher Newby, Liv Ullman, Toshio Matsumoto, Timothy Neat, Jamil Dehlavi and Edward Bennett, the divine vision is in the details.

SEASON 9
Conception

TANK’s ninth season, featuring films by John Cassavetes, Jean Cocteau, Terence Davies, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Derek Jarman, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Mike Leigh, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen and Yasujiro Ozu, show that between the idea and the story there is a universe of possibility.

SEASON 8
Escape

With films by Kryzsztof Kieślowski, Deniz Gamze Egüven, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Ozon, Cristian Mungiu, Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jean Vigo, Michael Haneke and Louis Malle – offering stories that cross borders, identities and contexts – this season looks at escape anew, not as resignation from our environment, but as re-engagement with it.

SEASON 7
Back to Earth

TANK presents ten films selected by the curators at Serpentine Galleries, as part of their multi-year project Back to Earth. Showing films by Agnès Varda, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Gianfranco Rosi, Charlie Chaplin, Luc Jacquet, Bela Tarr, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier and Babak Jalali.

SEASON 6
Ritual

This season, we present 10 films spanning six decades by directors who train their lens on this ancient human practice, who, in doing so, capture the often unsaid behaviours and gestures that make us us. Showing films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew Haigh, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Corneliu Porumboiu, Aki Kaurismäki and Atom Egoyan.

SEASON 5
Metamorphosis

We are pleased to be showing you 10 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Béla Tarr, Paweł Pawlikowski, Gabriel Axel, Robert Bresson, Olivier Assayas and Atom Egoyan.

SEASON 4
On Versimilitude

This season, we are pleased to be showing 12 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Louis Malle, Roy Andersson, Andrea Arnold, Hal Hartley, Denis Villeneuve, Peter Strickland, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mia Hansen-Løve. Through rich storytelling and technical nuance, these directors bring to light cinema's raw power to move and to persuade, and perhaps, to flicker more truthfully than life itself.

SEASON 3
Sculpting in Time

We look at films spanning five decades that approach time in profound ways, featuring Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Yorgos Lanthimos, Roy Andersson and more. From the hyper-real to the arcane, each provides its own portal into what Tarkovsky described as the “inner, moral qualities essentially inherent in time itself”.

SEASON 2
Growing Pains

Filmmakers return to childhood because while it is universal, it is rarely identical. Whether delving deep into the turbulent experience of our earliest years or tracing their reverberations into adolescence and adulthood, these twelve films journey back to where it all begins.

SEASON 1
Beyond Varda

With director Agnès Varda’s death in 2019, the film world lost a leading (and too-often overlooked) member of the Nouvelle Vague, a cinematic innovator and a pioneering voice. This season of TANKtv marks that legacy with 10 films by female directors for whom Varda laid a cinematic foundation.