Cities, Future Cities, and Film

Set within the glamourous world of a Parisian department store, Julien Duvivier’s long-forgotten masterpiece was one of the last silent films to be made in France and is ripe for rediscovery thanks to this brand new restoration.

Democracy is a word we often take for granted. Should we be complacent in a time of political and social crisis? Director Astra Taylor provides a philosophical journey about democracy which spans millennia and continents.

There have been many film, stage and radio versions of George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four - the best version was released in 1984, starring John Hurt as Winston Smith.

The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) project was a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.

A fictional researcher (voiced by Tilda Swinton) returns from a 20-year absence in the Arctic to find that, though the UK is one of the most advanced economies technologically, its houses are the most dilapidated in western Europe.

A documentary about utopian dreams and concrete realities… the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British 'New Town' of Basildon, Essex.

A collection of rare archive films that shed light on the New Towns movement and the experiences of their early pioneers.

Adapted from a J B Priestley stage play, a group of disparate characters discuss their hopes for an ideal city.

A feature documentary film, four years in the making, on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet.

PUSH examines one of today’s most urgent issues – the epic transformation of cities into financial instruments – to reveal with devastating clarity the shadowy operations and forces that threaten the very foundations of urban life.