The Underground Cinema at 180 Studios presents Sound & Imaginative and prescient movie season

Sound & Imaginative and prescient contains screenings of Fred once more..’s secret life on the coliseum, NYC ballroom documentary Paris is Burning and a programme of seminal music movies.

180 Studios’ new area devoted to movie, The Underground Cinema, follows its month-long theatrical residency of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Phrases & Situations with a season of music-oriented movies.

The Sound & Imaginative and prescient season, which runs from 10 April till 4 June 2026, options legendary stay reveals, iconic documentaries and cult classics, together with Fred once more..’s secret life on the coliseum, recorded on the LA Memorial Coliseum in June 2024.

Sound & Imaginative and prescient contains a totally different movie each week, starting with Getting it Again: The Story of Cymande, the largely unheard story of the best ever UK jazz fusion band. The 2-month season additionally contains screenings of the enduring Paris is Burning, the award-winning documentary chronicling New York’s Eighties ballroom tradition, and Discovering Fela, the story of Afrobeat musician and activist Fela Kuti.

The season additionally options movies in regards to the late Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, ambient musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland and David Bowie, in addition to screenings of Lisa Rovner’s 2020 movie Sisters with Transistors, telling the story of digital music’s pioneering girls artists.

These feature-length movies will likely be complemented by a rotating program of music movies by film administrators exhibiting within the adjoining exhibition area, from administrators together with Romain Gavras (Jamie xx – ‘Gosh’), Gabriel Moses (Travis Scott ‘4×4’), Melina Matsoukas (Beyonce – ‘Formation’), Kahlil Joseph (Flying Lotus – ‘Till the Quiet Comes’) and Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin – ‘Windowlicker’).

Sound & Imaginative and prescient runs at London’s 180 Studios from 10 April till 4 June 2026. Tickets can be found from the 180 Studios web site.

Sound & Imaginative and prescient movies

Getting It Again: The Story of Cymande (Tim Mackenzie-Smith, 2022)

The unbelievable story of the UK’s best-ever jazz-funk bands, whose sound has influenced generations with their irresistible rhythms and message of peace.

Screening dates: April 10, 11, 12, 15, 16

Discovering Fela (Alex Gibney, 2014)

The story of Afrobeat pioneer, musical mastermind and stressed agent for change, Fela Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political significance.

Screening dates: 17, 18, 19, 22, 23

Fred once more.. – secret life on the coliseum (LOOSE, 2024)

An intimate, ambient stay set by Fred once more.., performing his album ‘secret life’ for 100 followers at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 11 June 2024.

Screening dates: April 24, 25, 26, 29, 30

Keyboard Fantasies (Posy Dixon, 2019)

Rising from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, transgender septuagenarian musical genius Beverly Glenn-Copeland lastly finds his place on the earth. Keyboard Fantasies tells the story of this mystical musician as he embarks on his first worldwide tour on the age of 74.

Screening dates: Could 1, 2, 3, 6, 7

Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

This Sundance-winning, iconic cult traditional is a must-see film: filmed within the mid-late Eighties, it chronicles the drag ball tradition of New York: a world of fierce competitors, sustenance, and survival.

Screening dates: Could 8, 9, 10, 13, 14

Bowie: The Closing Act (Jonathan Stiasny, 2025)

Ten years on from the discharge of his closing album, Bowie: The Closing Act charts the extraordinary final inventive chapter of one in every of music’s most iconic and creative artists.

Screening dates: Could 15, 16, 17, 20, 21

Sisters with Transistors (Lisa Rovner, 2020)

The story of digital music’s feminine pioneers, together with Delia Derbyshire, Laurie Anderson and Suzanne Ciani – composers who embraced machines and their liberating applied sciences.

Screening dates: Could 22, 23, 24, 27, 28

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017)

An intimate documentary chronicling the legendary composer’s life, specializing in his creation of the album async following a most cancers prognosis, his activism in opposition to nuclear energy, and his profession spanning 4 a long time.

Screening dates: Could 29, 30, 31, June 3, 4

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