• 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. Her trademark blend of the deeply personal and highly political seen through a female lens brought new experimentation to filmic form and narrative possibilities, and saw the diminutive Varda cast a long shadow for several generations of filmmakers. This season of TANKtv marks that legacy with 10 films by female directors for whom Varda laid a cinematic foundation.

  • Cleo from 5 to 7

    Agnès Varda | 1962

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    Cleo from 5 to 7

    Agnès Varda | 1962

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    Agnès Varda’s experimental film follows Cléo, a singer, over an afternoon as she waits on a possible cancer diagnosis. Shot in almost real time, Cléo grapples with her own mortality and objectification as a woman, amid the shadows cast by the war in Algeria. A masterpiece of the Nouvelle Vague, Varda’s work reflects the intellectual hothouse of post-war Paris and the technical innovations that allowed filmmakers to capture the maelstrom of modern life.

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  • Corpo Celeste

    Alice Rohrwacher | 2011

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    Corpo Celeste

    Alice Rohrwacher | 2011

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    In Alice Rohrwacher’s coming-of-age movie, 13-year-old Marta returns to Reggio Calabria in southern Italy after a decade spent in Switzerland. With her mother absorbed in industrial shift-work, Marta seeks solace in the local church and preparations for her confirmation. Yet confronted by the apparent hypocrisy of Catholic doctrine, Marta begins to forge her own way of the cross.

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  • Exhibition

    Joanna Hogg | 2013

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    Exhibition

    Joanna Hogg | 2013

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    Joanna Hogg’s sophisticated and enigmatic fourth film follows an artist couple – played by artist Liam Gillick and musician Viv Albertine – as their long-term relationship unravels. Hogg’s use of natural light and fixed camera lend an eerie and mesmeric quality to a film that is at once modern gothic horror and caustic domestic comedy, one in which the structure of the couple’s austere home becomes both prison and refuge, and a critique of modernism itself.

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  • The Selfish Giant

    Clio Barnard | 2013

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    The Selfish Giant

    Clio Barnard | 2013

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    Clio Barnard’s raw, yet tender feature debut is a parable and a child’s-eye view of northern England’s dismantled industrial society. Two teenage boys are excluded from their school in Bradford and take to stealing and selling scrap metal, which leads them to Kitten, a scrap dealer whose selfishness and selective kindness foster mistrust between the boys. Barnard’s film is both a state of the nation and a warning of horrors to come.

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  • Orlando

    Sally Potter | 1992

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    Orlando

    Sally Potter | 1992

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    Sally Potter’s unforgettable vision of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel follows the life of the apparently immortal Orlando, who begins an epic quest for love and freedom as a man in the court of Elizabeth I and completes the search 400 years later as a woman. The dazzling adaptation is aided by Potter’s unwavering eye and shrewd casting: Tilda Swinton is the perfect embodiment of Orlando and Quentin Crisp has a ball as an old queen, or Elizabeth I to her subjects.

     

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  • Winter's Bone

    Debra Granik | 2010

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    Winter's Bone

    Debra Granik | 2010

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    Set against the backdrop of the meth-addled communities of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, Debra Granik’s bleak film sees 17-year-old Ree (played by a masterful, 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence) set out in search of her errant father on a journey through the surreal and desperate landscapes of rural poverty. A prescient vision of gender and class politics in America’s left-behind communities.

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  • Women without Men

    Shirin Neshat | 2009

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    Women without Men

    Shirin Neshat | 2009

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    The debut feature of Iranian artist-turned-director Shirin Neshat adapts a 1989 novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, which was banned in Iran. The complex and enigmatic story of resilience, which follows four women brought together amid the political upheaval of the 1953 British-American-backed coup that strengthened the shah’s hold over the country, is brilliantly captured in the fierce beauty of Neshat’s images.  

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  • Bastards

    Claire Denis | 2013

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    Bastards

    Claire Denis | 2013

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    Claire Denis once summed up Bastards as a film born of anger. In this twisted and brutal take on the neo-noir thriller, ship captain Marco (Vincent Lindon) seeks revenge for his troubled sister by seducing Raphaëlle (Chiara Mastroianni), the mistress of the man who raped his niece and drove his brother-in-law to suicide.

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  • Lourdes

    Jessica Hausner | 2009

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    Lourdes

    Jessica Hausner | 2009

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    Suffering from multiple sclerosis and paralysed from the neck down, Christine (Sylvie Testud) takes a pilgrimage to Lourdes, a place where unexplained miracles meet Disneyland-like religious kitsch. Alongside her travel companions, all in search of cure or comfort, Christine encounters divine healing, and its accompanying doubt and resentment.

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  • Fish Tank

    Andrea Arnold | 2009

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    Fish Tank

    Andrea Arnold | 2009

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    Andrea Arnold’s multiple-award-winning film is a masterpiece of contemporary social realism that looks straight into the dark heart of Britain’s forgotten white working-class communities. A ruthless portrayal of an isolated teenage girl on an Essex council estate, Fish Tank portrays the complex, and profoundly tragic, confrontation between teenage and adult desire.

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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.