We enjoy asking the artists exhibiting in the gallery what films they would like to have screened in our cinema to coincide with their exhibition. The selections are sometimes surprising but also consistently illuminating of their practice. For No Reflections, Martin has chosen four films, including L’inhumaine.

DCA offers a very rare opportunity to experience Marcel L’Herbier’s extraordinary film once dubbed ‘a manifesto for French artistic modernity.’ The director worked closely with artists Fernand Leger and René Lalique and with the architect Robert Mallet Stevens to create one of the most artistic movies ever made. The story concerns an opera singer and her male admirers – a maharajah and a scientist and blends melodrama with science fiction. The renowned Viennese architect Adolf Loos wrote at the time that ‘the final images of L’inhumaine surpass the imagination. As you emerge from seeing it, you have the impression of having lived through the moment of birth of a new art.’ The original soundtrack by Darius Milhaud is lost but we are delighted to have Raymond MacDonald arrange an alternative accompaniment.