If you take a multidisciplinary approach to your arts, you might well appreciate this upcoming season of film at the British Film Institute. To run from October 30th - November 29th at the BFI Southbank, Of Dreams And Cities promises to lay on quite a spread of architecturally-related films, documentaries, discussion and debate to celebrate RIBA's 175th founding anniversary.

The ubiquitous Citizen Kane will be on offer, as will Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect and Antonioni's L'eclisse, to name but a few of the treats to be served. Not only will this be an indulgent fusing of the visual arts, but a chance to be be present for and contribute to major thinking on issues both heavily affecting and affected by architecture today.

See the BFI for more info on screenings and events.

Trailer for Olivier Smolders Nuit Noire: Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days exercising his passion for studying insects; if only there still were days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a permanent eclipse. Coming home after work, Oscar finds an African woman in his bed. Suffering from a mysterious and incurable disease, she seems to have come to his place to die. Trapped between desire and repulsion, Oscar gradually abandons his life to terrifying phantoms.

The long awaited feature length debut film of talented short filmmaker Olivier Smolders (see also Spiritual Exercises DVD), Nuit Noire (Black Night) is mysterious, ghostly, technically impeccable, and continuously bathed in a magical, surreal light.