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 Playtime.

Following on from our recent season of films by Jacques Tati as part of the French Film Festival, we present what is perhaps his masterpiece. Now feted for its use of outstanding choreography and for Jacques Lagrange’s set designs, this nearly wordless film was a labour of love for the actor/ director Tati which practically bankrupted him. The film both celebrates and criticises the sameness of modern architecture and design and modern life itself. Tati’s famous character Monsieur Hulot struggles in the modernist maze.